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Their wordsKnowledge is dead if it’s not in your head.
Their wordsVery often, learning skills that are automated in practice is a necessary stepping stone to cultivating uniquely human skills.
Their wordsThe answer, I believe, is not too different from before: if you want to learn to code, you need to start by creating programs by hand.
Their wordsSimilarly, AI translation will prevent you from learning to speak another language, AI summaries will block you from really understanding the arguments laid out in a book, and AI analyses of your personal problems will make it harder for you to think through solutions to your own problems.
Their wordsLearning requires an investment of effort, and AI will make us stupider if that effort is avoided.
Their wordsThus my personal prediction is that in domains that are already largely under the powers of modern AI, such as languages, programming or chess, we’re going to see a divergence in human abilities.