| ▲ | k310 3 days ago | |
I reading about deskilling these days. I’ll admit that in narrow specialties, with really clean training data, and results-checking by experts, AI can lighten the load on professionals. But here are professionals losing their edge. How and why? Well that’s another study, I suppose. My main concern is for young people. They are given problem assignments of increasing difficulty in order to learn by thinking things through. They often reply on pushbutton answers. I recall one tough physics course where I read through solutions rather than working “from scratch”. Long story short, I learned methods and steps along the way, instead of copying and pasting a result. Will young people not even see the approach and steps? Perhaps courses should emphasize problem-solving over answers, or if AI is everyone’s “wingman”, how to use it reliably and responsibly (if that is possible). DHH [0] pointed out the futility of CV’s, in that they conceal the important bits, whether a human reads them or AI reads them. I don’t know what to make of this, being one of those people who took things apart to learn how they worked, in the days when you could take things apart, and they weren’t composed of black boxes, or were entirely a black box. “Look at real work” he says. How? | ||