A personal note for non-tech friends and family on what AI is starting to change.
This is from a long post I’ve just read. It was clearly written to be sensational (which it seems to have achieved), yet it makes some valid points and offers useful advice:
Here’s a simple commitment that will put you ahead of almost everyone: spend one hour a day experimenting with AI. Not passively reading about it. Using it. Every day, try to get it to do something new… something you haven’t tried before, something you’re not sure it can handle. Try a new tool. Give it a harder problem. One hour a day, every day.
While following technological progress is always a good idea, the current pace is truly mind-blowing, so it requires more attention. As someone who has been coding since C# first launched (don’t check the date!) and whose day-to-day is full of markdowns, JSONs, and APIs, even I am finding it difficult to keep up lately.
So, personally, and surely as an educator, I can’t help but agree with the point about “the cost of not experimenting.” We are moving into a world where daily experimentation is as essential as your morning coffee, which you must drink.