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Source: 📖 21 Lessons for the 21st Century ch.2


AI knowledge is updated faster than human knowledge

Comparing human doctors to hypothetical AI doctors, we can imagine scenarios where new medical discoveries are made. In such cases, it takes a long time for all human doctors to update their knowledge to account for the new information whereas a network of AI doctors can all be updated simultaneously in an instant. These compounding benefits that develop from the connectivity and update-ability of AI agents mean that even in cases where an individual human is better at a given job, it may still be better to replace all humans with AIs in order to access the benefits that come from the connectivity and update-ability of AI.


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