"People will practice their skills" is the new "drivers will keep their attention on the road and remain ready to quickly take the wheel from the autonomous driver in an emergency."
It's like research. People had encyclopedias. If they wanted to know real, deep information about subjects they'd have to specifically spend effort seeking and finding books or papers about that specific subject (which are typically just distilled papers in a far wider range and number than an encyclopedia would be)
Then we could just go Google it, and/or skim the Wikipedia page. If you wanted more details you could follow references - which just made it easier to do the first point.
Now skills themselves will be subject to the same generalizing phenomenon as finding information.
We have not seen information-finding become better as technology has advanced. More people are able to become barely-capable regarding many topic, and this has caused a lot of fragmentation, and a general lowering of general knowledge with regard to information.
The overall degradation that happened with politics and public information will now be generalized to anything that AI can be applied to.
You race your MG? Hey my exoskeleton has a circuit racer blob we should go this weekend. You like to paint? I got this Bougereau app I'll paint some stuff for you. You're a physicist? The font for chalk writing just released so maybe we can work on the grand unified theory sometime, you say you part and I can query the LLM and correct your mistakes
>Then we could just go Google it, and/or skim the Wikipedia page. If you wanted more details you could follow references - which just made it easier to do the first point.
Except at this point, market forces and going whole hog on neural networking and such instead of sticking with just reflective, impartial indexing of the digital medium has made it nigh impossible for technological aid to actually improve your ability to find niche things. Search Engine Optimization, plus the interests in shaping narratives, have made searchability take a plunge. Right now the unpolluted index may as well be a WMD for how hard it is to find/keep operating one.
This already happened in aviation a long time ago, they have to do things to keep the pilots paying attention and not falling asleep on a long haul where the auto pilot is doing most of the work. It isn't clear at what point it will just be safer to not have pilots if automated systems are able to tackle exceptions as well as take offs and landings well enough.
Then we could just go Google it, and/or skim the Wikipedia page. If you wanted more details you could follow references - which just made it easier to do the first point.
Now skills themselves will be subject to the same generalizing phenomenon as finding information.
We have not seen information-finding become better as technology has advanced. More people are able to become barely-capable regarding many topic, and this has caused a lot of fragmentation, and a general lowering of general knowledge with regard to information.
The overall degradation that happened with politics and public information will now be generalized to anything that AI can be applied to.
You race your MG? Hey my exoskeleton has a circuit racer blob we should go this weekend. You like to paint? I got this Bougereau app I'll paint some stuff for you. You're a physicist? The font for chalk writing just released so maybe we can work on the grand unified theory sometime, you say you part and I can query the LLM and correct your mistakes