People have traditionally gained expertise by starting at the bottom. The carpenter’s apprentice, the intern at a magazine, the medical resident. These are usually pretty horrible jobs, but they serve a purpose. Only by learning from more experienced experts in a field, and trying and failing under their tutelage, do amateurs become experts. But that is likely to change rapidly with AI. As much as the intern or first-year lawyer doesn’t like being yelled at for doing a bad job, their boss usually would rather just see the job done fast than deal with the emotions and errors of a real human
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