Mark Cuban: the one skill you need

According to Mark Cuban, the one skill you will need in ten years after the artificial intelligence invasion has begun is creativity. Just one. Not a list of skills but just one. And he has pooh-poohed the coding skills because software will be able to code itself.

Think about that: he’s discounting all other skills in the face of the automation era because AI will be able to do pretty much anything.

That’s scary.

That’s not to say you won’t need to know how to code but that coding skills alone will not be enough. You will still need to be able to do math, read and write, and coding will be added to that mix of basic skills taught in schools. And I think it would behoove us to understand how machine learning works too.

But we will need to include creativity, entrepreneurialism and resilience so that we can dream up new solutions to new/old problems, using our understanding of the available technology at hand. Artificial intelligence won’t be able to do the open ended things such as spotting the problems to be solved and coming up with solutions suitable for humans. Right now, AI can solve the close ended systems where you ask the question and AI finds the answers, or you program AI to look for outliers or you design AI to do the physically demanding tasks. But at this time, it will not do the creative tasks to help, entertain or please humans.

Has education changed enough that creativity, instead of rote repetition, and curiosity is being developed and strengthened?