You know it but you don’t it
Thursday, June 19, 2025
In AI era many people say that we don’t need to learn languages, don’t need to read books, don’t need to do many things and activities which were our daily life.
Everything of this we have on the Internet thanks for AI. Yes and no.
I’ve read on The New Yorker article What’s Happening to Reading?:
Large language models, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT or Anthropic’s Claude, are, among other things, reading machines.
That’s true. We know how it works. AI reads everything what it finds.
And users of AI saying that it’s good because we have access to knowledge that we didn’t have before. And this is great. But when we know that reading books and good articles full of knowledge or results of scientific research, why we don’t read it like avid readers? Like AI?
It would better for us than scrolling social media timelines which are illusion of knowledge. Better knowledge in ‘human interface’ will be also better for us at work with AI - digital interface’.
Cooperation at a higher level, not substitute thinking. This should be the future.
From official reading books report in Poland I found:
In 2024, 41% of respondents said they read at least one book. Women still read more often (47%) than men (35%). Invariably, young people aged 15-18 read the most (54%), while those over 70 read the least (25%).
AI knows that reading is worth the effort. We should know it as well. Let’s not be less prudent than AI (or better correct: ‘large language models’).