GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces
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#2AI stands for Actually Indians. Office jobs are moving to India.
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#3Relevant: Humans need not apply (2014) [1]
Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces
#4AI stands for Actually Indians. Office jobs are moving to India.
I don't get this meme. Who is doing this? To the extent I'm seeing anyone successfully replaced en masse by LLMs, it's Indian IT consultancies.
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#5Reminder: The New York Post is a rag. Look at the front page before treating any of what you read as journalism.
Re: GenZ grads say college degrees a waste of time/money as AI gets into workplaces
#6AI stands for Actually Indians. Office jobs are moving to India.
I don't get this meme. Who is doing this? To the extent I'm seeing anyone successfully replaced en masse by LLMs, it's Indian IT consultancies.
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#7Reminder: The New York Post is a rag. Look at the front page before treating any of what you read as journalism.
And yet the only one that printed the Hunter Biden story.
I trust NyPost more than activists at Washington Post
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#8"Their degrees are already obsolete" -> I don't understand this attitude. Do they expect to have special knowledge after a bachelor's degree? Or do they think that just asking an AI what to do is the way to create better AI and a better future for us humans?
A bachelor's degree is like an extended grade 13. With a master's degree, one can start working independently, or as we jokingly say, "know where to ask and what to kook for!"
College should teach us the basics of how to think critically, how to solve problems, and how to organize our work materials; it should enable us to grow and tackle more academically demanding problems, not a training for a specific job. These are skills that are extremely valuable no matter what the technological advances are. And when you see that, the cost of a college education in the U.S. and some other developed countries is just ridiculous. So I see it as a sign of frustration and disappointment rather than in a literal sense.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get this meme. Who is doing this? To the extent I'm seeing anyone successfully replaced en masse by LLMs, it's Indian IT consultancies.
some random news, there are more - https://www.businessinsider.com/amazons-just-walk-out-actual... - https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/ai-app-scam-philippines-c... - https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/14/20805676/engineer-ai-arti...
None of Amazon Just Walk Out, Nate or Engineer.ai used GPT-class LLMs.
Pre-ChatGPT (2022)? Sure. Meme applies. Today, it doesn't make sense--the closest comparison for AI's coding output is that of a mediocre offshore IT outsourcer.
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#10It is a privilege to attend college and learn there. It exists on a different plane than strictly meeting job requirements; I think it is unfortunate when people reduce it to merely that. Young people are under a lot of pressure and these statements may just be venting. That being said, it is a privilege that is getting very expensive for many people.
If the claim is that all of the knowledge can be gained online, I will counter that is the difference between popular-ABC and real-ABC for any given subject ABC. The college forces you to round out your skill set into subjects you might otherwise ignore.