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AirJordan2345 posted...

ye, i agree with you on that. You really don't even use the stuff that you studied in college. Another thing, you really think that computers and a.i. will be able to do most jobs? So when is a machine gonna be able to make a burger and a pizza or cut someone's hair, without any human help?

There's going to be a lot of jobs rendered redundant by AI; white collar jobs in particular are most susceptible. The software development positions, a number of them are going to be cut at lower levels but otherwise it's an incredible tool to augment one's abilities and increase one's productivity. The way I see it is that with AI, one person could do the work of 5 guys. A company could cut corners and reduce staff, but what about a company who decides to keep their personnel and have them maximize AI tools? They're going to build things far bigger and greater due to the collaboration of their staff members in conjunction with these new tools.

The name of the game previously was learn something valuable so you can charge people a premium for your efforts. With AI, what is considered valuable to learn is going to be drastically different. Of course, what you learn using your hands isn't going to be touched by AI anytime soon, or until robots can mimic the dexterity at an affordable price. But getting started in a field to get a job to leverage into a career is going to be a helluva a lot harder I'll admit.

Ruvan22 posted...

Eh... I'm not sure disregarding the societal benefits of higher education is the best answer to a specific problem with higher education. Also while AI definitely has the potential to do all that, I would think lots of other things will need to happen first - high speed internet has affected schooling, entertainment, communication, health delivery, etc BUT there are SO many areas of the country still don't have high speed internet to begin with.

Not agreeing with universal free college tuition =/= disregarding societal benefits of higher education.

Don't twist my point.

We're in a country right now where the vast majority of people have degrees but are underemployed in relation to their education due to the overall saturation of degree holders in the market. Disregarding obvious fields where you need a license to operate in, we have tech companies more than willing to hire someone who built a portfolio of projects in his spare time using the wealth of knowledge and information freely available over people who studied the craft in school. So what is the argument right now for universal free college tuition?