With Artificial Intelligence gaining ascendancy and everyone jumping on to the band wagon, a thought occurred to me that the Knowledge based skills like finance, MBA's, lawyers etc. will soon become redundant as the knowledge will be all with the likes of google and anyone can search and use AI to get a solution.
Many clarifications, like what computer I want to buy based on my requirement, what type of agreement required for a particular action, etc is easily done with the help of CHATGPT. And this is just one of the tool. So, what does knowledge based AI do that a human can also do. It takes the information available and analyses and provides solution as per your requirement. Take for eg. to file a tax return, it will seek some basic information and then use the database of knowledge of the tax information and churn out a tax return for submission to the IT department. Eg is clear tax. Thus a CA or Tax consultant is made redundant.
Or to prepare a business plan, one may not need an MBA to do. Put in the basic inputs or even that is not needed in an ERP environment(Enterprise Resource Planning), which may have past data and looks at trends (which an MBA also does) and churns out a 10 year forward Business plan, cashflow and various other reports.
Even for doctors, the symptoms put out and AI generated reports of your blood, pressure, heart rate etc. makes an ordinary doctor redundant as all the 5 years knowledge from the Harrison's Principle of Internal Medicine, Gray's Anatomy etc. are input in AI.
Even for translators, Google and other machines fluently translate and speak on your behalf in a language you choose.
Thus Knowledge based info is thus passe'. What will be required in future is the physical aspect of skills. That is someone whose physical presence may be required to help out. Examples of such ones are Nurses, Plumbers, Farmers, Electricians, Surgeons etc. who has to physically come and sort out the issue. Even software guys will be made redundant - already with GITHUB, standard routines are put up there and people can easily copy the coding.
Trade skills will be the key learning of the future. And the value of those will increase.
THINK - Do you still want to send your child to a high paying college getting a knowledge based education or to a Trade School.
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