Back when I used to work in the pharma industry, I had the opportunity to hire summer interns. This was a long time ago, long enough that the fresh-faced college students who applied for the gig ar…
  •  Quexotic   ( @Quexotic@beehaw.org ) English
    31•9 months ago

    “AI won’t take your job. People who know how to use it will.”

    I’ve seen this quote floating about, and I get the feeling that the author of this article doesn’t understand how to use this new tool yet. I feel like they are missing the point.

    The Google search engine, when it was new, would never take someone’s job either, but those that knew how to Google properly definitely had an advantage.

      •  Quexotic   ( @Quexotic@beehaw.org ) English
        1•9 months ago

        I wasn’t able to find anything about that, perhaps because I used Google to search for it. Can you provide a source so I can learn more about that? It certainly sounds feasible but I want to learn more.

        •  shanghaibebop   ( @shanghaibebop@beehaw.org ) English
          2•9 months ago

          This was more or less a reflection of my personal experience.

          When I was in school, we were taught how to do research. It involves going to Libraries and looking for primary secondary and tertiary sources via the Dewey decimal system. We were taught how to use almanacs and even had an almanac competition on how fast someone can find information.

          Public institutions such as the Library system in the United States, were our “temple” of knowledge. Public support for Libraries was historically VERY high.

          However, since the popularization of search engines, it has radically reshaped our expectations of finding information. We expect to find it at our fingertip, in less than 200ms, at the cost of quality and gatekeeping institutions that filtered out a lot of junk knowledge.

          I was able to find a few articles talking about this: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2477/2279

          I especially love the quote, “Conflation of information retrieval with knowledge”