Can't help but think that your son and his peers are going to fundamentally use AI in such a different way than we do now and do a much better job of understanding it's constraints and using it to it's full potential.
maybe because they don’t have enough prior experience to compare “the new way” with any given old way.
I imagine that an AI-native generation will be the same, but with respect to AI.
I think you have the age range of people who wrote their own MySpace pages versus those in pre-structured gardens like Facebook slightly wrong.
I figured you’d at least need to study the same group for 10 years as they grow up to really tell.
Obviously a 12 year old might not understand the limitations of a technology, but give that 12 year old 10 years of living with it and they’d be better than their parents.
Right now there are millions of high school students tweaking and testing different inputs against LLMs for very real consequences: their grades.
Meanwhile I barely trust LLMs enough to write a relatively inconsequential piece of code.
If this version of AI is the real deal, the kids that are really depending on it are going to figure out the breakthroughs, not me.