Today's article is entirely based on two things.
Yesterday at the printing shop, I saw a few pages of bound paper on the copier. I glanced at it, and it was a historical knowledge point:
The Grand Canal in the Sui Dynasty was divided into four sections, namely ___ ___ ___ ___, which connected the five major rivers ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
In ___, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty was killed by his generals in Jiangdu, and the Sui Dynasty came to an end.
The imperial examination system has existed for ___ years in the history of our country
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It's all stuff like this, I thought to myself, what age is it, why are you still taking this rote test?
At noon, I learned that a primary school student in a nearby community ran away from home again. The reason was that his parents forced him to memorize a lot of Tang poetry and Song poetry, and forced him to learn Olympiad...
These two things immediately reminded me of the recently popular ChatGPT. It itself is a database with a huge amount of knowledge. The above knowledge is a piece of cake for it, and it can answer accurately.
Not only that, but it can produce "thoughtful" essays in seconds for questions like "Is Romeo and Juliet a good play?" or "Who is Canada's most important prime minister?" No teacher can tell Is it written by students.
Now that ChatGPT is very powerful, if AI develops to a higher level in the future, which jobs will be killed?
How will our current students who are taught by rote memorization, cramming, and crazy questioning regardless of children's interests, face the challenge of artificial intelligence in the future?
I dare not talk about other fields, but mainly talk about the software development field I am familiar with.
I also wrote an article before " ChatGPT's powerful programming ability made me break out in a cold sweat! ", you can take a look.
The more general and the clearer the structure, the stronger the ability of ChatGPT based on massive data. For example, to achieve general functions, initiate an RPC, read and write files, compress files, generate thumbnails..., algorithms that coders often use, etc.
ChatGPT can repeatedly explain this point through Google's low-level engineer interviews. This ability makes it a good helper for programmers. What needs to be careful is that the code it writes must be carefully identified to see if it is what you need. The debugging time may be longer and more tiring than writing it yourself.
But ChatGPT, which mainly relies on "recitation", cannot replace the programmer's design ability. For a brand new business requirement, senior developers can analyze the functional and non-functional requirements, and then decide: this system needs to be separated from hot and cold, Query separation requires the use of ES, Hbase and other software...
ChatGPT can't do this kind of thing. It has never seen this requirement, can't understand it, and can't find the answer.
Of course, if this case is learned by it, it may "recite" the answer to others in the future, just like the "salary payment case" in my previous article, but the boss will most likely not use it.
Dr. Shu Jihuai said that the important abilities of an engineer include:
1. When the problem has no obvious structure, it can see its internal structure and connection;
2. Under the constraints of various constraints, be able to find the possibility and framework for comprehensive satisfaction or optimization;
3. Able to hold different ideas and make comparisons and judgments.
This ability is consistent with the design ability I mentioned above, and it is also not available in AI.
" If a person is trained as a tool and cannot establish the structure of the problem, then his value will be greatly reduced , otherwise the value is still huge."
If the job skills you are engaged in are simpler or the structure is clearer, the possibility of your skills or jobs being replaced will be greater.
For example, the work of CRUD gives you a database table and generates codes related to its addition, deletion, modification and query. It is too clear, the structure is too simple, and it is too easy to be replaced by artificial intelligence.
ChatGPT has no creativity. For example, if you ask what its object-oriented design principles are? It can answer SOLID well, but it can never sum up the principles of SOLID alone, nor can it sum up various design patterns.
ChatGPT will not associate the toilet with Chuanchuan, nor will it associate CPU with Forrest Gump , or TCP/IP with Daming postman . This is a whim of human beings, and ChatGPT cannot give it to us.
You ask ChatGPT to describe a beautiful landscape, and it can easily give you a paragraph from massive data in a few seconds. You ask it to write a coherent plot, consistent style, and logically self-consistent novel such as "Three-Body Problem". Not sure, because it lacks imagination.
Now everyone understands what I want to say. ChatGPT is extremely capable in clear-structured and general-purpose fields, far surpassing humans. In fields that require creativity and imagination, it is far inferior to humans.
In addition, there is no need to worry too much about ChatGPT. Although it will definitely have an impact on our life and work, the impact certainly does not happen suddenly, but moistens things silently and slowly infiltrates. It also needs to evolve and iterate, and products based on it also need to find suitable application scenarios to create killer applications.
Back to the issue of children's education, in the era of artificial intelligence, don't bother children, don't spend a lot of time instilling things that children don't like at all, think more about how to develop children's creativity and imagination!
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