AI Can Answer Everything. But Do You Know What to Ask?
There is a curious problem hiding inside the age of artificial intelligence. We can now ask a machine almost anything. History. Science. Finance. Marketing. Technology. Politics. Medicine. Business strategy. The answer arrives almost instantly. And because the answer arrives so quickly, we may be tempted to believe that learning itself has become less important . Perhaps the opposite is true. The more powerful AI becomes, the more valuable it may be to know something before you ask. Because knowledge doesn't just give you answers. It gives you questions. A Pandemic 1,500 Years Ago Has a Lesson for AI Consider the year AD 542 . The Byzantine Empire was dealing with one of the most devastating epidemics in ancient history: the Plague of Justinian , part of the first plague pandemic. It spread through the Mediterranean world during the reign of Emperor Justinian I. Today, we can ask AI about it in seconds. Who was Justinian? What caused the plague? How did it spread? H...