On a philosophic level, this sort of thing deeply concerns me. We often get mired in the debate of "should people be able to learn to make bombs or how to best kill themselves" (and those are important debates), but our solutions to those problems will have big implications for future access to knowledge, and who gets to control that access. In the process of trying to prevent a short-term harm, we may end up causing unintended long-term harm.
As time moves on, the good blog posts, tutorials, books, etc where you currently learn the deeper knowledge such as memory management, will stop being written and will slowly get very outdated as information is reorganized.
I've already seen this happen in my career. When I first started, the way you learned some new technology was to buy a book on it. Hardly anybody does this anymore, and as a result there aren't many books out there. People have turned more to tutorials, videos, blog posts, and Stack Overflow. The quick iterations of knowledge from these faster delivery mechanisms also further make books more outdated by the time they written, which further makes them less economical.
As AI becomes the primary way to learn (and I definitely believe that it will), the tutorials, videos, blog posts, and even Stack Overflow are going to taper off just like books did. I honestly expect AI to become the only way to learn about things in the future (things that haven't yet been invented/created, and will never get the blog post because an AI will just read the code and tell you about it).
It could be an amazing future, but not unless Google and others change their approach. I think we may need to go through a new Enlightenment period where we discover that we shouldn't be afraid of knowledge and unorthodox (and even heretical) opinions and theories. Hopefully it won't take 1,500 years next time.
As time moves on, the good blog posts, tutorials, books, etc where you currently learn the deeper knowledge such as memory management, will stop being written and will slowly get very outdated as information is reorganized.
I've already seen this happen in my career. When I first started, the way you learned some new technology was to buy a book on it. Hardly anybody does this anymore, and as a result there aren't many books out there. People have turned more to tutorials, videos, blog posts, and Stack Overflow. The quick iterations of knowledge from these faster delivery mechanisms also further make books more outdated by the time they written, which further makes them less economical.
As AI becomes the primary way to learn (and I definitely believe that it will), the tutorials, videos, blog posts, and even Stack Overflow are going to taper off just like books did. I honestly expect AI to become the only way to learn about things in the future (things that haven't yet been invented/created, and will never get the blog post because an AI will just read the code and tell you about it).
It could be an amazing future, but not unless Google and others change their approach. I think we may need to go through a new Enlightenment period where we discover that we shouldn't be afraid of knowledge and unorthodox (and even heretical) opinions and theories. Hopefully it won't take 1,500 years next time.