Differentiation

Average may not even be employable for long, though, at least in knowledge work.  AI is exceptional at average . If something can be taught, it can learn it better. If it can be copied, it can copy it faster. 

The things that are going to be valuable are the things you can’t teach or copy.”

In the current state of the art,  models are only as good as the data they’re trained on  and  the models can’t generate new training data themselves.  AI-generated output is based on the data that trained the AI in the first place, so any data it creates will be a regurgitation of the data it already has. That means that humans

The world will be a richer, more colorful place when more people are freed up to learn, create, and build novel things that only they can. This might be technology’s greatest gift to humanity.  By making the competition to be better at someone else’s game practically futile, it frees us up to play different games. 

“The things that are going to be valuable are the things you can’t teach or copy.”  

This sounds almost obvious, and echoes Mr. Beast’s point, but it stands in direct opposition to the way the system is currently set up. Humans spend the first twenty-two years of our lives, and sometimes more, being taught and learning how to copy.