Learning in the age of AI

The internet has made a vast amount of information available to us on demand. Recent developments in AI (with LLMs) have made learning even more accessible to us without much training.

Our devices can either deaden our skills or heighten them. The secret to learning now is to partner effectively with intelligent tools. We would be wiser to augment our skills with the power and knowledge of machines.

Even when everyone has an almost limitless ability to ask and answer certain kinds of questions, experience and common sense become a foundation for understanding and intuition that lead to higher performance.

As Kevin Kelly noted, those who have both human creativity and access to the best knowledge on demand will outperform those with only one of these skills.

AI will rapidly widen the knowledge gap between those eager to learn and those who prefer to stay within their comfort zone.