Perhaps this is another of the early (?) nails in the coffin for traditional higher education. If it becomes harder to assess if someone learned something (with a grade), the results of that assessment (GPA) become less valuable. Software has traditionally been at the forefront of allowing people with non-traditional backgrounds (bootcamps, other degrees, self-taught) to work in the highest echelon of jobs, because o…
Higher education will become just an optional prep course for your sit down conversational AI interview. Once AI can do a good job vetting candidates, I see no reason for companies not to have an open applicant process where anyone can interview and be evaluated. If you are sharp and know your shit, a degree won't matter and the AI interviewer won't care. But this is an "All else being equal" scenario, my true belief…
Think about cloud computing. It changes the game massively for startups and for people who need enterprise class infrastructure as mere mortals.
Another constant tension to show you how unpredictable all this is: Do you use kernel networking, let the kernel use hardware offloads, or goto use DPDK? The choice of what to do is changing as hardware changes, the kernel changes etc....
... Once you understand, that life is ALWAYS at an event horizon.. you understand AI is just another such event.
Prediciting the future is for the native... Making the future is the way to go. Currrently the AI guys are doing that. But another thing will rise up, it always does.