The Brilliant Math Coach Teaching America’s Kids to Outsmart AI

Inspirational story of Po-Shen Loh Team 🇺🇸 math coach (4x winner since 2013) of International Mathematical Olympiad.

The Brilliant Math Coach Teaching America’s Kids to Outsmart AI
This professor is traveling the country with simple advice for an uncertain future: Be more human.

50 lectures in 32 cities in 35 days. This brilliant math professor is traveling the U.S. and teaching kids how to outsmart AI.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-ai-math-po-shen-loh-1e9f80dc?st=3o462myr6gn2o2k

He started that morning at a Brooklyn middle school with a large percentage of low-income students before driving to a top-ranked high school on Long Island that afternoon and coming back to Queens in the evening. But the scholar had the energy of a fourth-grader on Skittles as he delivered a talk called “How to Survive the ChatGPT Invasion.” And his simple, practical advice applied to everyone in the auditorium.

“Think about what makes humans human,” Loh said, “and lean into that as hard as possible.”

He says the key to survival is knowing how to solve problems—and knowing which problems to solve. He urges math nerds to focus on creativity, emotion and the stuff that distinguishes man from machine and won’t go obsolete. As artificial intelligence gets smarter, the premium on ingenuity will become greater. This is what he wants to drill into their impressionable young minds: Being human will only be more important as AI becomes more powerful.

It’s not just students who should be paying attention to Po-Shen Loh. The lesson that he’s evangelizing in schools is useful for any business that might be wondering how it’s going to be warped by the existential threat of artificial intelligence. Which is every business.