A ONE Institute
Jun 19, 2024
Today, let’s discuss the capabilities that talents desired by the AI era and universities should possess.
Living in the AI era, what kind of talent should we become? There are various AI based on artificial intelligence such as Microsoft’s GPT-4, Google’s Bard, and Meta’s LLaMa.
The table above shows the weekly working hours of workers. You can see that workers’ working hours have been decreasing from the past to the present. In the 1870s, it was over 60 hours per week, but now the average working hours in the United States have shortened to 37.8 hours.
What the result tells us is that productivity has dramatically increased as it has improved significantly.
Looking at productivity by country, you can see that productivity has greatly increased as machines have replaced physical labor through the 2nd and 3rd industrial revolutions. We are currently working 38.7 hours, but we are confident that it will soon drop to the 20-hour range.
Machines have already replaced physical labor, and now we need to reduce intellectual labor time. Intellectual labor time is, for example, something like this. Suppose there is a time for tasks such as searching for something, reading and checking about 20-30 pages of information, and then drawing a conclusion. Compared to the time to read and find dozens of pages of information, if you ask GPT-4, those times will be greatly shortened. It is efficient to be able to work by reducing the search time.
Currently, there are more than 1.1 billion websites in the browser. However, only 17% of them are actively running homepages. This means that while intellectual labor time has been reduced using AI, there is a lot of garbage-like information among the information that AI brings. The reality is that AI is becoming a shape that collects wrong information from the garbage dump of information. So, I think the era has come when it is crucial to mine good advanced information.
In 1989, a small interview scene of Richard Feynman gives us a hint. Although it is an interview 40 years ago, you can see that it fits well with the current era. There is a part where the interviewer asks Professor Feynman about magnets.
“What is between the magnets that push and pull each other?” He asked. Feynman’s answer was “There is a magnetic field between the poles of the magnet, so different poles stick together and the same poles repel each other.” His answer was so obvious and simple that the person who asked the question was also taken aback. Reading his expression, Richard Feynman answers, saying that he answered this way because he didn’t know how much scientific knowledge you have. If you are a person with scientific knowledge… The content of the answer was very different from the previous answer. The interview video of Richard Feynman ultimately says, “You have to ask correctly to answer smartly.” I tried the question of the Interviewer in the video directly to GPT-4. The answer to the first question… was just superficial talk, just like Feynman’s answer. But when I, who studied Physics, was asked to answer in relation to the spin alignment of electrons. It was answering smartly in a way that there must be electrical characteristics for a magnetic field to occur. In other words, to reduce intellectual labor, you have to ask smartly. Personally, I think a smart student is a student with intuition. If you are an intuitive student, if you encounter a difficult problem during a math test, you intuitively judge that you can’t solve it now, solve the rest of the problems, and then come back. As a result, the score itself does not drop much, but students without intuition are usually stuck in that difficult problem and continue to solve it, wasting time and not being able to solve easy problems, resulting in bad scores. This difference in scores is due to the lack of mathematical intuition.
The above math problem is one of the evaluation problems we give when hiring a math teacher at our academy. This problem is a problem that a student who has covered AP Cal BC can solve enough.
But strangely, 5 out of 10 people can’t even touch this problem, and 4 out of the 5 people who solved this problem submit wrong answers. The one who solved it correctly solves it like this. It solves using the Euler number, and anyone who has ever solved a math problem like this can get the answer right. What I want to say is that to develop intuition, you have to experience it.
There are two ways to have intuition
• Coming loaded when born
• Gain experience
These are the two. In order to get a smart answer while living in the AI era, you have to ask smartly. In order to get that smart answer, you have to become a person with intuition, and I would like to tell you that intuition can be obtained through various and many experiences. In order to become a great talent who can reduce intellectual labor time in the AI era, you must experience intellectual labor in middle and high school. Those who have gained experience through such intellectual labor will eventually preempt smart information. I hope you will remember the story we shared today and become a talent with intuition.
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