By Mallory Mattingly
Is AI taking learning opportunities away from young people? Movieguide®’s Robby Baehr and Jeremy Carroll sat down for another episode of the “We Who Dad Podcast” to discuss how artificial intelligence impacts the next generation.
“I went to this interesting conference over the weekend, and it was just talking about work and different aspects,” Baehr began. “Obviously, there’s kind of a sense of dread around AI. People feel like TERMINATOR, right? On what it could be, and what it means for work and skill and knowledge and training. But one of the things I thought was really interesting, which I had never thought about, is how it plays into training the next generation.”
“Because a lot of things that made you a master of your craft, or made me good in the things I’m doing, or other things — they are kind of the really hard, banal tasks,” he continued.
He talked about a woman who spoke at the conference. She shared that she used to have an assistant attend and take notes at her meetings, allowing them to promote because of what they learned through that experience.
“But…now she doesn’t have to do that because she uses an AI, and it does all the transcribing for her. Which is a positive — like, that’s an incredible thing…somebody doesn’t have to do that,” Baehr continued. “But the hard thing is doing that hard thing actually produced a really great result. You know what I mean? The hard thing initially paid off in the big result in the long term.”
People learn and grow when they do the hard things, but with AI, those challenges are being taken away from the next generation.
Baehr related that back to what the Bible says in Luke 16:10: “He who is faithful with little will be faithful with much.”
“A lot of faith is about the small consistencies. It’s not always the big, big things…but it’s the little things that got you there, you know what I mean?” he said.
Related: Will Artificial Intelligence Kill Acting? Nicholas Cage Thinks It Could
AI use in work is certainly on the rise.
Built In, a company that helps people with technical backgrounds find work, found that nearly “55 percent of organizations have adopted AI to varying degrees, suggesting increased automation for many businesses in the near future. With the rise of chatbots and digital assistants, companies can rely on AI to handle simple conversations with customers and answer basic queries from employees.”
As AI becomes more commonplace, users and businesses increasingly give more menial tasks to the tech.
“If [developers] understand what the technology is capable of and they understand the domain very well, they start to make connections and say, ‘Maybe this is an AI problem, maybe that’s an AI problem,’” Mike Mendelson, a learner experience designer for NVIDIA, told Built In. “That’s more often the case than, ‘I have a specific problem I want to solve.’”
While AI isn’t going away, it’s still vital to provide younger people the opportunity to learn by doing hard things instead of giving those tasks to the technology.
Read Next: Why Artificial Intelligence Won’t Replace Filmmakers
Questions or comments? Please write to us here.
- Content: +3Share:
- Content: +3