alt Hacker NewsBy AI fluency I mean basically knowing how to drive the tools, an intuition for what the tools can and can't do, when to use AI vs doing it yourself, plus detecting when output is wrong, knowing what to verify, etc.
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QuadmasterXLII • last Friday at 11:26 PM
All of those skills have a half life of like 8 months.
lelanthran • yesterday at 7:19 AM
> By AI fluency I mean basically knowing how to drive the tools, an intuition for what the tools can and can't do, when to use AI vs doing it yourself, plus detecting when output is wrong, knowing what to verify, etc.
It's AI; by definition alone, those who don't know how to use it will reach competence within minutes, mastery within days.
I feel like "detecting when output is wrong, knowing what to verify" is the key skill, but it's also extremely demanding.
You need to have a very solid understanding of things like sources, and bias, and how to evaluate if something is likely to be true, and how to get to a credible answer.
Given the number of people online who try to read arguments with screenshots of a ChatGPT conversation, this is not an obvious process at all.