How AI threatens to make traditional college degree ‘obsolete’: experts

[LevelUP]

How AI threatens to make traditional college degree ‘obsolete’: experts
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/how-ai-thr...-obsolete/

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[elcastor21]

How AI threatens to make traditional college degree ‘obsolete’: experts
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/how-ai-thr...-obsolete/

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"Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made." 

AI cannot really create, it only remixes from existing works, a degree should serve people to be creative, not just to regurgitate a script. AI, like what it seems to be most college graduates, can only regurgitate what it have been told.

People who have used their degrees and have actually learned are safe, most people, not so much... In some ways, the college degree has been obsolete for years, in others, is more important than ever, but not for the reasons some people think.

[bjcheung77]

LOL, really? I don't think it'll make the college education obsolete, learning/knowledge gaps will exist, even though you can get AI and other OER learning/knowledge portals to fill some gaps, not all will be. We will most likely get more students through various mediums, from immigrants to high school graduates transitioning into college, to people coming from the workforce wanting to upgrade, etc.

[jax9]

AI is changing the job market and the skills needed for workers, but it does not make a traditional college degree obsolete. A college degree can still provide a solid foundation of knowledge, skills, and credentials, as well as exposure to diverse fields and disciplines. There are also many colleges that offer AI programs or courses that can prepare students for the challenges and opportunities of AI. However, students should also be ready to adapt and update their skills accordingly.

[Pats20]

This is really nothing new. Mark Cuban said years ago that “soft skills” and liberal arts are the future. English degrees ect.

[nykorn]

My degree is already obsolete. I majored in a foreign language. Chat-gpt4 can write in it better than I can, and synthesized text to speech can probably speak it better than me too. My professors had already told us to avoid trying to work in translation because everyone was getting pushed out of their careers (shittier work with shittier pay and faster deadlines) due to Google Translate changing the industry, and Google Translate wasn't anywhere near as good as what we have now just a few years later.

That said, it will take a lot longer than expected for most companies and countries to implement AI in a way where it actually replaces workers. My company is still using computer software from the 90s, there's no way AI could help anything. There are many smaller languages (like Greenlandic) that AI doesn't yet support, those guys probably won't be using it. I've been in stores in Taiwan that didn't even have electricity or cash registers (they used solar-powered calculators to add up your items), so a bunch of countries like that aren't going to use it for a ways out, despite that countries like Sweden and Japan already have staff-less cashiering in places. We may even see a mass migration away from first-world countries to second and third-world countries where our "now useless" first-world country skills are needed. I agree that big, famous, rich companies are probably going to hop right on it and fire 90% of their staff. Good thing I never wanted to work at a place like Google, but anyways it does really make me wish I had chosen a better Bachelor's subject which would be irreplacable.

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Forgot to add, I think AI is good in the sense that it will enable far more people to start their own businesses. You can get it to create art, text, basic videogame code, translations of stuff you wrote, whatever, and then turn around and sell the product, and you have basically no startup costs. But it's bad news for those of us not self-disciplined enough to start our own businesses, or who want to leave the country and need a work visa to do so.