Knowledge is something no one can take away from us, no matter how hard dishonoured, dishonest, and deceptive people try to do that. It’s extremely important that we cultivate a personal habit of acquiring knowledge as much as we can, getting more prepared to face the unknown and deal with situations we aren’t expecting to experience in the present moment. The boom of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is one example that shows acquiring knowledge helps us to adapt faster to the use of technology without sacrificing our personal evolution. In fact, what we do while using AI is exactly the same thing we do when planning, designing, and implementing a solution on our own. The difference is: when we do things on our own we may write down the plan, the design, but usually we don’t write down the operational steps of what we’re doing, like writing a manual for someone else to understand what needs to be done if we’ve to do a similar task in the future. With the use of AI, we need to write down, or even verbalise, everything, which implies the pressing concern of mastering the solid fundamentals of the task we’re performing as best as we can. However, as an AI agent is much faster than a human being to perform some repetitive daily activities, we’ve also to be aware of the misconceptions and mistakes the technology may give us as its outcome, which requires sharp knowledge to identify and fix. That’s why acquiring knowledge is not only about how to use a given AI tool but (mainly) about the domain related to the activities we’re performing with the help of AI agents. Otherwise, we become totally dependent on the right outcome of the AI tool instead of really knowing how to solve a given problem we’re facing in the present moment.
At every level or perspective we can use to observe what happens in modern society, and in the surroundings of the environment we’re inserted into, knowledge is the foundation that enables us to analyse and reason about the data we collect through our own senses or high-tech tools such as AI agents. We get used to hearing that money generates more money in order to justify that when a person has a lot of money it can generate a lot of money too. However, what’s behind the wheel of money, directly or indirectly, is knowledge. If we carefully observe a given situation, there’s always someone, not necessarily the one who possesses a lot of money, that possesses a lot of knowledge to move the wheel faster. Thus, knowledge produces more knowledge, and if money is involved, can generate a lot of money as a result. It also explains why we observe people with a lot of knowledge that produce more knowledge with no much money involved, and someone else that has a lot of money and loses it at a faster pace because they aren’t backed up by a reliable source of knowledge.
The moment we realise the tight relation and connection of knowledge with anything we observe and experience in life, it’s the moment we understand how we can walk towards the path of a meaningful life and take advantage of AI instead of becoming slaves of technology.
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Written by Jeferson Souza (thejefecomp).
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