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As for AI and robots and such taking over the space, I will believe it when I see it. People are okay with toy demos and "oo neat" spectacles, but day in and day out, I see humanity as a whole consistently rejecting "data-driven" analysis and the ability of machines today to crunch numbers, produce models, forecast accurately, tell them how to do their job better, faster, stronger. At best I see these tools providing assistance / enhancement but nobody (at least in this generation) will get into a fully self driving car that was programmed by a bot. As usual, the only 4 skills that truly matter in this world are: * listening and empathy - being able to actually hear others in a way you can actually help them, and then having the capacity to do so * critical thinking - being able to produce a real problem, understand a space with lots of ambiguity and subjectivity, overcome cognitive biases, identify and reject misinformation, and generally be logically thorough and adaptive to changes in information. * creativity - seeking novelty, practicing self-expression, exhibiting curiosity, inventing, innovating, designing, dreaming. * grit - perseverance in the face of failure, recasting failure as opportunities to enhance the skills above, being resolute in purpose, embracing change and uncertainty and risk. From those spring our future. Perhaps ironically these are the traits that will be the hardest behaviors to "emerge" from an AI, although they certainly have capacity to emulate these behaviors. |