Why you should not become an AI expert

You’re better off betting on yourself than on a technology you have little or no agency over.

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I still remember the thrill I felt in 2013 when I got the chance to interview IBM’s Watson team. Two years earlier, it had competed on the popular game show Jeopardy! and beaten human champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings. After that interview, I wrote an article for Forbes arguing that Watson would inaugurate a new era of cognitive collaboration. 

As I look back now, more than a decade later, the article holds up remarkably well. I compared learning to collaborate with AI to pilots........

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