OCATBC on Nostr: Friend and I were talking about AI yesterday - he's worried that it will affect his ...

Friend and I were talking about AI yesterday - he's worried that it will affect his job, and is going to make some efforts to learn more about it. It occurred to me that while it's great that these apps can do a lot of 'mental grunt work', specifically 'scraping' documents for information, they're also learning from these tasks the kinds of things novices in these kinds of professions would also be learning. If there's no basic work left for novices/apprentices/graduates to do, how are they going to develop their own skills and domain knowledge to be able to do the senior-level work that will still need to be done by people?

This relates, tangentially, to the 'miracle on the Hudson' - an experienced pilot landed a damaged passenger plane on the Hudson River with (IIRC) no loss of life. But where did this experienced pilot get his experience? Not from sitting in the cockpit while the autopilot flew the plane. It's a bit of a paradox that people only get the experience to handle emergencies (or complex challenging problems) by putting in the hours in non-emergency situations, and that's exactly what AI will be keeping from doing.