I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Being good at AI tools is obviously an advantage right now. But I don’t think the information gap lasts forever. Models get better. Interfaces get easier. Good workflows spread. Things that took an expert months to learn eventually become a button. So what is left on the human side? The best analogy I have is a strange one: Imagine the numbers 1, 2, 3, and your job is to find another integer somewhere between them. Obviously, there isn’t one. That’s the point. Maybe the advantage isn’t getting better and better at choosing between 1, 2 and 3. Maybe it’s noticing that there is another variable that the original frame didn’t contain. In investing, that might be finding a strange rule, structural edge, or entering before everyone else sees it. For a creator, it might be communicating some tiny human detail that technically isn’t necessary, but somehow touches people. In business, it might be realizing that the process everyone is trying to automate faster isn’t actually the bottleneck. The common part is that the useful variable wasn’t obvious inside the original problem. And I think this may actually get harder as AI gets smarter. Bad AI shows you its cracks. It gives weird answers. It contradicts itself. You can see where the frame is broken. Very capable AI is different. Its explanations become smoother. Its reasoning sounds increasingly complete. The choices it gives you all make sense. And that may make it harder for a human to notice: Maybe the problem isn’t which answer is best. Maybe something is missing from the question itself. That’s the part I’m increasingly interested in. If AI becomes extremely good at reasoning inside a frame, perhaps one of the remaining human advantages is the ability to notice when the frame itself should be broken. Or maybe AI eventually becomes better at that too. I’m not sure. But I suspect that “using AI well” and “seeing the variable AI didn’t give you” are going to become very different skills. submitted by /u/Powerful_Creme2224
Originally posted by u/Powerful_Creme2224 on r/ArtificialInteligence