Will AI Bury Future Generations in Cognitive Debt?
As companies seek to automate repetitive tasks in the name of cost-cutting, they should consider the longer-term implications. If we transfer all codified knowledge to machines, we will bequeath to future generations a world where it will be ever harder to learn by doing, to achieve mastery, and thus to aspire to creative freedom.
Find the entire article written by Bertrand Badré and Florian Ingen-Housz on Project Syndicate.
PARIS – The pianist Keith Jarrett’s Köln Concert is one of the greatest pieces of improvisation in the history of jazz – an hour of unrestrained glory, delivered without a score or a plan. But Jarrett’s achievement owed nothing to chance. Rather, it was the outcome of thousands of hours of tedious repetition – endless scales that honed the pianist’s reflexes and muscle memory. Geniuses of improvisation rely on mastery, which itself comes from practice. They are not just winging it. […]