@RichardSocher
Building self-improving superintelligence CEO @recursive_si and @youdotcom MP @aixventuresHQ Ex: Stanford Adj Prof, Chief Scientist at Salesforce, CEO MetaMind
Prediction: We will reinvent salary bands and management hierarchy for AI. "Junior" models have cheaper hourly/token costs, they do a lot of grunt work, some busy work, more low impact decisions. Senior frontier models will synthesize all the facts, make important decisions and delegate to those junior models. People will become managers and have their own agent org. Recursive will be well positioned for this future.
Yes, education needs to change because of AI. But just because AI can now do something better doesn't mean people shouldn't learn that skill. Not every skill we learn has to be immediately useful in a job. A lot of the training in school and university is around how to be a functional member of that society, how to learn anything (meta-learning), how to memorize anything, how to think and debate on the fly, how to communicate intentions well. Grades are a signal that can be useful in hiring (there are many others). Not only to know that a student understood that particular skill but also how they compare to their peers, if they can deliver under pressure, do they have the will to succeed. By taking many subjects students may get lucky and find something they're truly interested in. Sure, AI knows any fact and has lots of skills that may take you a long time to learn but you'll not be a very interesting conversation partner if you have to constantly get the next most interesting fact or a clever follow-up or counter from an LLM. You'll be easily fooled if you can't do basic math in your head. Ultimately, a lot of education may feel like a gym for the mind. Going to the gym isn't useful for humanity and mostly doesn't earn you more money. But it's good for you. It's good to use your muscles and your brain to not waste away. What we do need is teaching more agency, creativity and how to clearly communicate intentions and rewards to AI.
