Comment by jedberg
10 hours ago
> but we really need to think about how the next group of people are going to learn the skills and nuance to applying them
That's what school is for. For the last 150 years we've automated a bunch of things, and then we send people to school to learn how those automations work, so they can make better automations.
Maybe law school will have to be a year longer. Or maybe some forward thinking firms will have new associates check the work of the LLM to gain that experience.
> That's what school is for. For the last 150 years we've automated a bunch of things, and then we send people to school to learn how those automations work, [...]
Mostly agreed here.
> so they can make better automations.
That's not true at all. Aspiring accountants learn how to use spreadsheets, instead of doing their sums by hand. But we don't expect them to make better versions of MS Excel or come up with LLMs that can do all of that for them.
> That's what school is for.
It's not.
We have advanced CNC mills and lathes, and apprentices still learn doing things manually to understand how the tools work, their failure modes, and more.
There are machines that mix drinks, but you still learn to bartend by doing it manually and making mistakes, not starting out with machines.
Same with writing. Same with software. Doing the "simple", automatable thing is how you learn how the system works.
School can't be the same. Plenty of people have tried, but being effective in the real world is different.
In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they're not.
> There are machines that mix drinks, but you still learn to bartend by doing it manually and making mistakes, not starting out with machines.
You could say the same about grilling burgers. And yet, there are millions of burger cooks around the world grilling hundreds of millions of patties everyday with zero knowledge of how to grill burgers, at McDonald's and other bottom of the barrel fast food chains.
If not for the social aspect of being asked what you want for a drink and then watching it being made, bartenders would've already been replaced by mixer kiosks by now.
> You could say the same about grilling burgers. And yet, there are millions of burger cooks around the world grilling hundreds of millions of patties everyday with zero knowledge of how to grill burgers, at McDonald's and other bottom of the barrel fast food chains.
If there are cooks successfully grilling burgers, I think they would have to have knowledge of how to grill burgers.
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This is such beautiful rhetoric.
It's not mine originally, but it's been attributed to so many people that I don't know who to credit.
In the future, I think AI lawyers will be arguing with AI lawyers for the most part.
Like how people use AI to write their resume and then the HR department uses AI to screen the resumes, the 2 AI's duke it out.
Governments want to use machines to decide who to kill. As the Overton window shifts it seems natural that machines will adjudicate, too.
Makes sense and money will still be valuable and can be used to lobby/influence the AI judges just like how people judges are now too
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I get the impression, that's all "too abstract" for people.
Will they understand the point when football gets taken over by AI, robot players and all?
Or won't they even stop at AI pastors and pray for the second coming of "Super J AI"?
It's funny, I've been working on a short story in which, 20 years from now, the only job still exclusively reserved for humans is professional sports. When a pitcher loses his hand during the World Series in a freak accident with a food processor, a detective has to investigate the AI gambling cartel and the IoT devices it's infiltrated...
Still, school isn't quite the same as learning skills through work experience, is it?
> Maybe law school will have to be a year longer.
Law school is already 3 years long in the US (after 4 years of undergrad), and most agree the second two are a complete waste of time. Other jurisdictions are different, but the US market is by far the largest.
Who is "most"? Is this the same "most" that thinks college degrees are pointless and you should just go found a company (i.e. those that aren't paying attention and just want a credential)?
It’s people who graduated law school. First year was brutal. Second and third were a breeze and kind of boring.
The first year is really teaching you the lingo and how to think like a lawyer. After that it’s almost entirely electives and rarely requires hard work (Fed Courts being the exception).
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True, but have you seen the state of education in the year of our Ai-ssiah, 2026?