Imagine a child who grows up with the same AI from kindergarten through high school. It remembers every question they've ever asked. It knows which explanations work best for them. It adapts to their learning style, fills knowledge gaps instantly, and is available 24/7.
At some point, that AI may spend more one-on-one time teaching the child than any individual teacher ever could. Will future generations think of AI as just another educational tool...or as their primary tutor?
Teachers probably won't disappear. Their role may become even more important for mentoring, critical thinking, and social development.
But when personalized expertise becomes available to every student at any time, education could change as dramatically as the internet changed access to information. If every child had access to a world-class AI tutor, what would become the most valuable role of a human teacher?
The AI isn't the boon in this. The real gem is being old and still having access to everything you ever did. Just make sure that those out to enslave your offspring have zero access.
Ah, that's an angle I hadn't really considered. A lifelong memory could be even more valuable than the AI itself because the AI gets better as it learns you.
Also a good point that if an AI knows everything you've learned, struggled with, believed, and changed your mind about, then whoever controls that data has enormous influence.
Thanks!
Well... you should look at that as an access control thing. "AI" as we know it right now on its own anyway doesn't learn - it is static - so the intrinsic learning only happens if someone captures the traces and trains the next version (or another model) on it. So we're talking a peripheral database to which access can be granted. You should not ever even consider once to outsource that to one of the corporate solutions, anything that is coercible by any government, or in fact any central repository that is such a high value target that it will per definition be hacked, at all.
Instead, keep your thoughts private and off the cloud. That way, it is your database, your own evolution and no one else's business, as it is supposed to be.
That's a good distinction. I was using "AI" as shorthand for the whole system, but you're right, the model and the personal memory are really separate pieces.
Saves vendor lock in tears too if you separate them. For me personally, spending a day or 2 generalizing a bespoke claude workflow framework into a multi-vendor, multi-bot, highly concurrent one must have been the most golden tooling I have deployed to date.
Combined with RBAC, and barring getting hacked, I have full control over what Anthropic/OpenAI/US govt knows, what the Chinese govt knows, what is kept local, and what can be done through a 3rd party TEE-based inference provider. Exerting such control over the day-to-day work queue is nice.