What Movies Can Teach Us About Prospering in an AI World – Part 1 - DataScienceCentral.com

In his book Outliers, Malcom Gladwell unveils the "10,000-Hour Rule" which postulates that the key to achieving world-class mastery of a skill is a matter of 10,000 hours of practice or learning. And while there may be disagreement on the actual number of hours (though I did hear my basketball coaches yell that at me about 10,000 times), let s say that we can accept that it requires roughly 10,000 hours of practice and learning exploring, trying, failing, learning, exploring again, trying again, failing again, learning again for one to master a skill. If that is truly the case, then dang, us humans are doomed. Think about 1,000,000 Tesla cars with its Fully Self Driving (FSD) autonomous driving module practicing and learning every hour that it is driving. In a single hour of the day, Tesla s FSD driving module is learning 100x more than what Malcom Gladwell postulates is necessary to master a task.