If I read another article talking about how kids “need to learn how to use AI to succeed in the future” I’m going to lose my mind.
First of all, these people are all talking about LLMs and non-deterministic, prompt based tools. They’re not talking about, you know, building a photo recognition data pipeline or whatever.
But that means that you don’t have to learn HOW to use the tools. You can’t learn how, because it’s a language powered black box. You just USE it. What you need to do to use AI well is:
(A) know something about what you’re asking it to do, because it doesn’t actually know anything and has trouble detecting that’s the case
(B) understand how LLMs work, so you’re not confused, deluded, or enraged by them
You don’t need ChatGPT class or whatever, and the second someone proposes it I know they have no idea what they’re dealing with.