Welcome to a new series I'm dubbing. AI is going to radically change everything that we know really rapidly and we're not ready for it. Part 1, education. You've probably seen this on the internet recently. It's ChatGTP and it is the most incredible AI innovation in the last several years. Basically you ask it to do something and it'll do it. And in this case I asked it to write me a five-paragraph essay about Catcher and the Rye. And then I asked it to modify itself to be a sound smarter. And this took 15 seconds. Maybe you see where I'm going at this. Why would any kid, any college student, use anything else but ChatGTP3 to write their essays or at least write the core of their essays and then edit it from there? I certainly would have done it if my eighth grade self had had this technology. I treated it about this yesterday. I don't think there's any going back. AI is going to write a lot of our essays. It's a fundamental transformation on how education is done. A good friend of mine, David Hassel, the founder 15-5, compared it to the calculator coming into the classroom. I mean, how often are you doing math by hand in most places? The SAT eventually allowed calculators. This is in the fundamental transformation. Another follow-up pointed out that there are tools to figure out whether something is made by AI. But it's going to be an arms race. You're never going to be able to fully tell. Especially as the AI gets better. Soon there will be a thing called GTP4 and it works multitudes better. It's not out yet but it will be out soon. So what does this mean for education? I have four predictions. One, I think over the next two years there will be a fundamental battle between teachers and students as students use AI because it's easier and it makes sense to write their essays with it. Two, teachers are going to lose this battle because you can't put technology back in the bottle once it's out. Students are going to use this. Teachers are not going to keep up with it. It's like the calculator. It's here to stay. So three, there are not going to be as many essay-related things in a lot of classes over the course of the next decade. And if there are, it's going to be a fundamentally different style. It might be more about analyzing existing text. It might be more on the spot checking versus super long form writing that we've been used to in the US education system. And four, this won't just affect things like essays. This is going to affect every part of the education system, including test taking. Someone recently had ChatGTP, a product that's been out for only a week, take a full SAT test, and it scored a 10-20. And the only reason it didn't score higher is it couldn't read graphs. That is a software update to AI, not some fundamental thing that it has to go and solve. We are woefully unprepared for the AI revolution. In part two, I'm going to talk about how AI has been impact creative arts like playwriting and novel writing.