"Ultimately, Horvath said, the loss of critical thinking and learning skills is less of a personal failure and more of a policy one, calling the generation of Americans educated with gadgets victims of a failed pedagogical experiment."
It's both an opportunity and a curse. When I was younger I wrote 3d games in raw assembly language, and created my own language and VM. Today you can now do all of that entirely with AI. It's a huge time saver and will result in greater productivity. However, in order to maintain and build strong cognitive skills, you need to engage in challenging problems and learning.
The drive to solve complex problems and build new and fancy things will always be there, and there will always be a subset of people who will leverage the technology to build even bigger and better things than was possible for our generation. So those people will benefit (and possibly get very rich). The technology will likely raise up everyone's productivity and living standards, although those who don't flex their cognitive abilities might find they suffer more chronic health problems later in life.
cpncrunch|7 days ago
It's both an opportunity and a curse. When I was younger I wrote 3d games in raw assembly language, and created my own language and VM. Today you can now do all of that entirely with AI. It's a huge time saver and will result in greater productivity. However, in order to maintain and build strong cognitive skills, you need to engage in challenging problems and learning.
The drive to solve complex problems and build new and fancy things will always be there, and there will always be a subset of people who will leverage the technology to build even bigger and better things than was possible for our generation. So those people will benefit (and possibly get very rich). The technology will likely raise up everyone's productivity and living standards, although those who don't flex their cognitive abilities might find they suffer more chronic health problems later in life.