AI is loosening the link between “I don’t know” and “I can’t.” Through ARC-AGI-3, explore how learning with AI can change the limits we set for ourselves and our children.
“Machines can keep learning while our ideas about ourselves remain stuck in the past.”
I would give this line a lot of credit, and it's one worth reflecting on.
Looking at what's come my way these past years, what we often call AI slop is really human slop. People can't spend a few seconds to think, review what the AI wrote back, and reflect on whether it's a good answer aligned to their voice, values, knowledge, etc.
We blame the machine for putting crap out when really we are putting crap in and can't even challenge the output to improve it.
So it feels like some ideas are not stuck in the past, they are regressing...
As for myself, I've taken AI as an opportunity to challenge my ideas and even more my belief system.
I noticed that unless I changed my way of thinking, the AI would become a "suck my time" machine. Knowing better than becoming a slave to the machine, I decided to turn this AI era in an opportunity to think differently and I realized writing offers a great opportunity to do just that. I don't want the AI do "do the writing for me", i want the AI to help me learn how to become a better writer while I do the writing.
Yes, exactly. I think AI gets much more useful when you stop treating the first answer as the answer. Using it to question your own thinking is probably a much bigger skill than prompting.
Agreed. The first answer is where the questioning starts, not where it ends. That's true of the machine, and even more of the beliefs we were handed. Thanks for the piece, Selim.
The idea that AI is loosening the link between “I don’t know” and “I can’t” really stuck with me. That might be the simplest way to describe what’s changing. And the ARC-AGI-3 numbers are wild. We’re testing machines by asking how human they are, then watching them get better at the test. I also love the idea of playing the games with kids. I’d be curious to see who gives up first. My money’s on adults.
Haha, I’d bet on the adults too. Kids are probably much better at trying weird things without first deciding whether they’re “supposed” to work. That might actually be the more interesting test.
“Machines can keep learning while our ideas about ourselves remain stuck in the past.”
I would give this line a lot of credit, and it's one worth reflecting on.
Looking at what's come my way these past years, what we often call AI slop is really human slop. People can't spend a few seconds to think, review what the AI wrote back, and reflect on whether it's a good answer aligned to their voice, values, knowledge, etc.
We blame the machine for putting crap out when really we are putting crap in and can't even challenge the output to improve it.
So it feels like some ideas are not stuck in the past, they are regressing...
As for myself, I've taken AI as an opportunity to challenge my ideas and even more my belief system.
I noticed that unless I changed my way of thinking, the AI would become a "suck my time" machine. Knowing better than becoming a slave to the machine, I decided to turn this AI era in an opportunity to think differently and I realized writing offers a great opportunity to do just that. I don't want the AI do "do the writing for me", i want the AI to help me learn how to become a better writer while I do the writing.
Yes, exactly. I think AI gets much more useful when you stop treating the first answer as the answer. Using it to question your own thinking is probably a much bigger skill than prompting.
Agreed. The first answer is where the questioning starts, not where it ends. That's true of the machine, and even more of the beliefs we were handed. Thanks for the piece, Selim.
The idea that AI is loosening the link between “I don’t know” and “I can’t” really stuck with me. That might be the simplest way to describe what’s changing. And the ARC-AGI-3 numbers are wild. We’re testing machines by asking how human they are, then watching them get better at the test. I also love the idea of playing the games with kids. I’d be curious to see who gives up first. My money’s on adults.
Haha, I’d bet on the adults too. Kids are probably much better at trying weird things without first deciding whether they’re “supposed” to work. That might actually be the more interesting test.
Love this title. So many of us are still living by a version of ourselves we outgrew years ago.