We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely —E.O. Wilson
The push and pull interplay between open and closed systems is a critical factor to consider, but commencing with an open approach for maximum interoperability is of utmost importance. While it's difficult to predict how AI will affect education, change is coming to classrooms, and educators must focus on a positive vision to guide us through these uncertain times. Productivity increases may mean more work in the short term, but if saturation occurs, it may lead to the destruction of jobs. On the other hand, An AI model that can be 10,000 times cheaper than a human is an extremely compelling financial argument for automation.
Dueling Over Platforms
There's always a push and pull dynamic between open and closed systems. But the usual tendency is to start out as open as possible: if your site doesn't have any content or distribution yet, then all the preexisting content is somewhere else and all of the distribution is owned by someone else. So maximum interoperability is essential. Think of the early days of YouTube, where the canonical initial user experience was watching a pirated video embedded in a MySpace page. YouTube did a great job of leveraging Viacom's content library and News Corp's social media assets into a site that could stand on its own.
Byrne Hobart | 9 Minutes
The future of education in a world of AI
While it's impossible to foresee the exact impact AI will have on everything from curricula to the nature of work, one thing is clear: these changes will infiltrate classrooms in ways that are difficult to predict, and this may challenge the vision I've outlined above. We are undeniably in an era of transformation, but I'm confident that the issues arising from AI integration in education can be addressed, with benefits for students, teachers, parents, and society. Throughout history, educators have demonstrated their ability to adapt to technological advancements and societal shifts. Change is coming to classrooms, and I think it is important to focus on a positive vision to help guide as through the uncertain times ahead.
Ethan Mollick | 9 Minutes
When Will AI Take Your Job?
Productivity increases mean more work in the short term, but if productivity increases so fast that it saturates demand, things move quickly to the job destruction phase. The main winners of these trends will be all of us consumers, with access to much better content. Also, the best creators, who will use these tools to generate lots of great content and rake in its benefits. Some companies will make millions assisting these creators with tools, or helping demand wade through the oversupply. The losers will be all the average content creators: average illustrators, average lighting specialists, average editors, average singers, average journalists, average writers…
Tomas Pueyo | 27 Minutes
The 12-Cent Engineer
Imagine a future AI model that could do the same thing, it’s only generating a hundred lines of code a day. What does that cost? Today, using the existing GPT-3 model pricing from Open AI, if you do the math, it works out to about 12 cents… And that makes it an extremely compelling financial argument to make that - look, if a machine can automate these processes and it’s 10.000 times cheaper than a human, you have to look at that very seriously. You can’t say ‘well we are not going to do that’, if it were 20 % you might say [it] doesn’t make any sense, but 10.000 cheaper is compelling.
Matt Welsh in Danny In The Valley | 55 Minutes