Comment by ijidak
18 hours ago
But isn't all of schooling literally learning solutions others solved before us?
We spend most of our young lives (many of us our entire lives) studying physics, math, etc. that others have solved. (e.g Quantum Mechanics, Relativity, Calculus, etc.)
Biology consists, almost entirely, of studying solved problems in nature.
Aren't AI breakthroughs just more to study?
https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117237320796901560
Terence Tao’s “don’t create the open problem strip miner”
That doesn't answer the question. Assume today is not the stopping point, and that we end up with super-intelligent theory building AIs. Better than any current-day human. And better at explaining, creating visualizations, etc. than any current day human.
Why is it a problem that the professor is now a robot, and that humans could spend arbitrarily long learning from it and even after 15 years of masters-style advanced graduate lecture courses still have deeper still levels of the topic that the AI could teach them?
And if they never do reach that level of ultra-competence, well, then we found the niche for humans to continue to exist within.
Well the one issue is that this isn’t how students end up learning.
The base completion rate of MOOCs is single digits %.