If you can't do what an AI can't do, you are considered less valuable than an AI.

from Diary 2023-05-01

@taichinakaj: “Women should get married and have children first” and “18 year olds should go to school and have a college degree first” and “Beginners should cut their hands and get off first when they reach. The same is true for “beginners should cut off the actual object and get off the board when reaching. …

• nishio Well, I don’t know. I can’t predict what society will be like 4 years from now based on the current state of AI, so I’m not sure what will happen 4 years from now when I go to college at the age of 18. I think the difference between “I went to college, got my thesis in order, and graduated, but I don’t have any expertise,” and “I got a proper expertise at college.” will widen.

• nishio If you have nothing else to do in particular and you’re wondering whether or not to go to college, I think you should go to college, but the “value of a college degree” part of “general white-collar work” part of “the value of a college degree is that GPT4 caused a 1/10 price destruction, so I don’t see how you can sell it at a higher price in the market 4 years from now.

• nishio It’s not so much about the value of a college degree as it is about the simple fact that if you don’t learn to do something that AI can’t do, you will be considered less valuable than AI. I guess it’s not limited to college students either, that there will be a huge disparity between those who try to acquire it in 4 years and those who don’t and just relax.

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