Abstract:
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang believes that with the popularization of artificial intelligence, people gradually forget some basic skills, which does not necessarily need to be regarded as a problem. In a conversation with journalist Ezra Klein, he said the skills people need may change as technology develops.
The two talked about a study on students’ use of AI. The results mentioned in the conversation showed that AI can help students complete tasks faster, but over time, their mastery of the skills they learned is not strong enough, and their independent examination scores have also declined.
Huang Renxun admitted that some basic knowledge has begun to be forgotten. He cited pen arithmetic division, multiplication tables and square root calculations as examples, and asked whether it was important that basic mathematical knowledge was gradually forgotten. When Klein pressed him on whether that was a problem, he responded: "I don't think it matters."
Huang Renxun believes that technology reduces people's demand for certain old skills, and at the same time people will master new skills. He emphasized that important capabilities will still be retained, but the specific knowledge required may change over time.
He also used himself as an example, saying that he could not remember his home address and phone number, and he was once asked about his postal code at a gas station and couldn't answer it. In his opinion, one can still live a normal life without keeping this information in his mind. These examples are used to illustrate his views on the relationship between knowledge and technology, and are not intended to advocate stopping learning basic mathematics.
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