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> You learned Java. AI is now writing entire operating systems. You studied marketing fundamentals. AI is predicting consumer behavior before consumers know wha
by falcor84 1y ago
> You learned Java. AI is now writing entire operating systems. You studied marketing fundamentals. AI is predicting consumer behavior before consumers know what they want. You memorized case law. AI is finding legal precedents your professors never heard of.
> ... Enough doom and gloom. Here's your action plan:
Putting my deconstructionist hat on, this is entirely self-contradicting. For all we know, in a decade, the most important skill might be the ability to clearly mentally imagine "the change you wish to see in the world", and your neural implant will do the rest. If anything, their premises could lead to a strong argument that the best course of action is a well-rounded Liberal Arts degree.
- bilbo0s 1y agoIf anything, their premises could lead to a strong argument that the best course of action is a well-rounded Liberal Arts degree. This. The obvious answer in an AI world is that the domain expert becomes the valuable employee. If you don't know enough to direct these models with the intelligence, wisdom, and judgement that only being a domain expert can confer, you're not going to get the results out that you need to actually get anything useful done. So no, they won't need techies, but PhD level biologists are safe. In fact, PhD level biologists leveraging the advanced AIs to come in the future are likely to be exponentially more valuable than entire bio startups are today. So if you're young today, don't be foolish. Don't go to college and get some CS degree with an eye towards getting a job in tech. That's very likely not going to work out for you long term.
- jdalton 1y agoI feel there will be room for PhD level roles like you mentioned, but it would seem that over-time they become HITL by regulation...not knowledge.
- msgodel 1y agoI think college as it exists now is mostly a scam but if there's one course I really got my money's worth out of it's been philosophy. I mocked it at the time, I felt like algorithms would be much more valuable. So far I have not once had to insert values into a any kind of tree from scratch since. I think that's the issue with college. It's become a sort of administrative/application oriented thing rather than focusing on knowledge.