In the last year we have seen an enormous leap in consumer-facing A.I. For example, products such as Dall-E2 and MidJourney are able to create realistic images and art from natural language descriptions.
Soon these techniques will allow each person on the planet to have a personal custom tutor. Any new knowledge or skills that you wish to gain will be presented to you in a manner that is optimized for your own individual knowledge base and learning style.
When such technologies become mature, people will be able to acquire new skills with an ease and facility that will be remarkable by today’s standards. It will not yet be Trinity learning how to fly a helicopter, but it will be a lot closer than anything we have seen until now.