AI will solve the HOW question completely. Chat interface is a
beginning. Already, we can see that it's more efficient to code
by giving AI objectives and context. Then debug by giving it the
error message. These steps will further be automated by jumping
from Chat to a Sandbox interface. AI will become an agent with
tools and can make decisions and take actions.
I believe over the long run, AI will need more exposure to reality,
more freedom to make decisions, more resources, and more power to
accomplish more things. Of course, during this process, we need to
make sure AI is accomplishing things for us rather than against us.
So if we are very lucky, i.e., we prevented AI from deviating from
us, it eventually will solve the HOW question for us completely.
But I think the remaining What, When, and Why questions are even
more important. Throughout history, these are the questions people
fight over each other; it was never the HOW question that got us
into deep trouble.
I think AI exposes today's schools' deep flaw in focusing on
training rather than education:
"Education is What, When, and Why to do things, Training is How to do it."
Recently, I have been thinking about how to utilize today's AI to
teach myself, as well as everyone with curiosity, new knowledge—
but this time focusing on the more important questions: What,
When, and Why. In some sense, with today's AI, we all have a
teacher we never had but wished to: all-knowing, present all the
time, and personalized.
I think if we could build a teacher that truly inspires us to think
about the most important questions, we can be better prepared for
a world with AI and limitless ways of doing new things.