Currently, AI models can offer relatively satisfactory answers when correctly interrogated on the current corpus of knowledge.
The difference is made on the edge. The boundaries of knowledge. There, human intuition has much more effective ways to explore the unknown.
To navigate the known corpus of knowledge, one must have the core ability to navigate this corpus accelerated by an AI Sherpa. If one doesn’t possess this ability, then both the person and the AI Sherpa would move in circles rather than advancing toward the edge of knowledge.
The “proof” that such intrinsic ability exists at its core is a very pedagogical process.
I imagine it very similar to the access to the Mysteries of Eleusis — the most famous and influential religious rites of ancient Greecea, a place for personal, transformative experience for the initiate (the mystai).
Today, would be a mix between a University, a Church and a SPA :)
I imagine it as a school at the intersection of academia and church, where scientific knowledge is blended into ritual practices designed to elevate the senses until a certain “knowledge-block builder” sense clicks in.
I imagine it was felt as a mix of revelation and rationality.
We can imagine a certain modern academia-church where this ability is like receiving the driver’s license — but to navigate toward the edge of knowledge. Once having it, the person has mastered the ability to orient itself in a certain mess of patterns: symbols, words, sensations.
The modern version of the Eleusian Mysteries is about to be built.
Instead of diplomas we will receive badges. Proof that such an ability exists. People can upload them on their Linkedin profiles and brag about it on Instagram.
From that moment on, they can engage in explorations with an AI Sherpa.
Edge of knowledge, here I come!