u/WillSen wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I don't now how I missed this (maybe didn't show up til now?) I asked something like this exact question (to be honest I didn't ask it well because it can be quite intimidating in these sorts of gatherings) - but I was trying to push them to engage in what I'm so skeptical about
u/michaelnovati replied ·
You said you've been working on AI stuff for 2 years, so why do you understand it better than a fleet of experts who have been doing ML and AI since the early 2000s? Assuming just one of those people has "unfakeable empathy", wouldn't that person be in a place to be a leader on ML or AI?
If someone new wants to get into AI/ML and does your 3 week course to learn the basics of Gen-AI, is empathy enough to supplant someone with the same background but has been doing it for 15 years? Why do assume everyone who isn't in tech has empathy to bring to the table?
Based on that argument you should start a school that doesn't teach any engineering skills and only teaches empathy? And if it's not teachable and something innate, then a school that identifies and nurtures people with innate empathy is great for finding a few leaders of tomorrow, but not accessible to everyone.