College Is Not One Thing

People are saying that AI is the end of university, but I see it quite differently. What you have to do is break down the university experience into its individual parts so that you can see the situation more clearly.For example, there is exposure to textbooks and base knowledge that is supposed to be the state of the art, which is what textbooks are for. That was already bad and broken long before AI got here, so good riddance to that. AI is much better, especially when a proper AI is used to get the latest research and apply rigor to the results.Then there is the in-person lecture from a professor. This has a very wide range:For the vast majority of colleges and professors, having an AI build you or the class a custom YouTube video could be quite a bit better. Even more advanced than that would be an interactive AI that can do dynamic visualizations based on questions asked by anyone in the class. That is likely the case for lower, middle, and even upper-middle tiers.If somebody is…