Makes sense. The kids can see that education isn't really going to be a sellable skill when AI ends up coming into full force.<p>AI already writes most of the articles I see posted here, is doing math at the level of the best mathematics, and is writing a ton of the code out there. Given another decade to develop, the kids will be hitting the workforce with very stiff competition. It's not a shock they're putting their energy elsewhere, and I can't say they're wrong.<p>They may be the first generation who grow up fully catered to by AI.
The decline started in early to mid 2010's, this has little to do with AI.
> is doing math at the level of the best mathematics<p>Terence Tao a few days ago [1]:<p>> When we point the AIs at really difficult problems where none of the standard techniques apply, they are still very, very bad, I mean they're just randomly guessing.<p>Please don't reply saying they'll be proving the Collatz conjecture next week. It adds nothing.<p>[1] <a href="https://youtu.be/svl_1upFpQo" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/svl_1upFpQo</a> (worth watching on the role of LLMs in maths)
The best mathematicians are also not very good at solving the hardest problems though. By definition.
Let's see you solve some open problems before you dismiss LLM capabilities. They're working at a level far beyond all but the best of the best.<p>And we're only a couple of years in. Their capabilities aren't going to be getting worse over time. These kids will be hitting the workforce after AI has another decade of improvement put into it.
> Makes sense. The kids can see that education isn't really going to be a sellable skill when AI ends up coming into full force.<p>If true, this is a disastrously foolish thing to believe. Education is only going to become more important as supervising increasingly advanced AI agents becomes more difficult. We need people who understand all different domains of human endeavor at the deepest level possible.<p>I mean, what's the alternative? AI does everything for me and I play Fortnite all day? Might as well plug yourself into the Matrix.
Just like kids eventually take over most of the daily tasks for their parents (for people in countries where you don't have any kind of retirement fund and assisted living, etc.). Same will happen here - on one hand because the human population keeps growing older without any replacement and on the other because all the new tech will be too complicated for humans to understand.
It's not clear if it is foolish.<p>The situation will probably be like with airline pilots. The plane is mostly an automated system, but we simply don't let automation to work through exceptional situations, without human review. Therefore, lots of pilot training (and their presence) is still required.<p>But it's also hard to guess what exactly skill should the pilots have. It's clear that lots of things from manual aircraft do not translate well to automated.
Most people do not have the ability to understand a domain at the deepest possible level.
It seems unlikely that we'll be able to keep up with AI in any capacity. Your alternative seems like the inevitable outcome of AI succeeding, and it doesn't sound so bad.
I hope people recognize this account doom posts what amounts to misanthropic propaganda at a very high rate. There’s never any question how the comment is going to be framed.
It’s always, “give up little humans, your robot overlords are here.”
Yes, kids are the demographics known for long term thinking and rational decision making.
Dunno man, the articles ai writes are empty cardboard crap, and the code it produces is hot garbage. “Cleaner upper of AI messes” might be a good future skill to have.
I don't think you can dismiss the output quality so easily.<p>Give yourself a few hours to write out some code in the old way. Can you really tell me that you could not have done a better job with AI in the same time?<p>Eg, implement chess or poker games.<p>Or write a component like a Swiss table.<p>It's not obvious to me that AI produces bad work at all.
As has been said before we've been cleaning up garbage code for generations and that doesn't look even close to changing anytime soon.
Where do you think they are putting their energy?