The knowledge doesn't come from the answers. Is the product of discovering new questions.

This year, I started a postgraduate program at UPC in Barcelona—Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning. Wow, it’s been amazing. I really feel like I’m pushing myself. Doing a course where my background is mostly self-taught is definitely an interesting challenge.

Let me tell you a quick story about something that happened the other day.

We were doing a lab practice on APIs for language models. Just to add some context: when you communicate with a server, you send a request, and after processing it, the server sends back a response. Well... how you communicate with the server is a big deal in computer science and cybersecurity, but that wasn’t the main focus of the practice.

Now, even though I’ve worked in app development with JavaScript and learned a lot on my own, there were still things I wasn’t entirely clear on. I had this feeling that there was a gap in my knowledge, but I couldn’t figure out how to search for the missing pieces. I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

Back in class, I started putting the pieces together. Afterward, I went to talk to the professors, and that’s when the real process began. At first, my questions were messy—disorganized thoughts, random terms thrown together. But here’s where human intelligence truly outshines AI: when I had tried asking ChatGPT or searching on Google, I would get answers to questions I wasn’t even formulating. But my professors, instead of just giving me answers, guided me toward the right questions.

And once I had the right question, everything clicked. The answer was clear, and even better—new questions started to arise. But what really amazed me was that my learning didn’t come from the answers. It came from finding the right questions.

Wanna know what I learned, maybe in another post, today is about how not what!!!!