In my time as a student, I was taught the difference behind the word efficacy and efficiency. At that time efficiency seemed to me to be an objective, today I'm not so sure. Efficiency through digital change has brought us many benefits, at least for those of us who do not at present suffer from large digital gaps, in my case, particularly in the area of management. Last week, though, I've been thinking about artificial intelligence and efficiency, when a member of the Librezale in Education group shared a story: "Nvidia CEO says kids shouldn't learn to program." The idea behind these words is that artificial intelligence has the ability to become a creator in the digital realm, so we no longer need to know how to program, to draw by computer, to edit videos by computer, to know how to write and to read...
I sometimes think I'm too scared of these claims. It is possible that the people behind these kinds of ideas do not seek in the name of comfort the importance of understanding our world and the technologies present, that reduce our possibilities of influence, themselves, the great development technologies, in the way of continuing to add power. It is possible that this time we are not working another Troia Zaldi to enter our lives, that we are not on the path of creating business models that we cannot now imagine, while our lives and our jobs are precarious by causes that we will never understand well. Maybe it's better to think that now I'm going to have new creative possibilities that aren't within my grasp: for example, being able to create an app with a description, an image, a web, a video game -- for the moment, I look at the side, without understanding well what's going on and its benefits and losses.