Do you think he needs to make any more money in his life, or can he retire tomorrow and live comfortably long past his death?

I think the difference is between someone like you who wants to learn and a teenager who has to learn.

I used to be a tutor, and the kids who wanted to get ahead were people who more needed someone to give them hints as they learned. The ones who needed to get the grade were a lot more reticent and needed a lot more attention and prodding.

I don't think AI as it currently exists is a good choice for those folks.

It comes down to the same issue that all AI comes down to really.

If there’s proper oversight (tutor teaches the student and reviews knowledge while the student uses the AI to study or test themselves) that’s fine.

If it’s just the AI then a student isn’t going to know what they don’t even know to ask.

This can also work with books or adequate material someone is basing their learning on.

Can't say I love this for the PNW's water resources and fire forecast next year. Good luck to us all

I think it'll become increasingly important to have folks thinking about how to explain new math in a way that makes sense to your math bachelors students. And to your bright AP Calc students.

If we can point ChatGPT at these problems and get eventual answers, that's awesome, but it'll still be important to figure out how to tell people why this matters in ways they understand.

At least personally, parts of the differences for me are that the same instructions to a different CNC machine should produce the same product and that the machinist, presumably, created the instructions themselves.

Instead of saying "create instructions for CNC to make me a _thing_, then instruct the CNC machine to actually create the _thing_" they went and created the instructions themselves.