Posted on 04/23/2025 8:31:11 AM PDT by libstripper
Four years of classes, thousands of dollars in tuition and one freshly minted diploma — all to be outdone by a chatbot.
As artificial intelligence floods the workplace, nearly half of Gen Z job seekers say their degrees have already been made obsolete by the rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT — and they’re wondering why they even bothered hitting the books in the first place.
It’s a waste of time and money, according to respondents to a new Indeed report, which found 49% of Gen Z job hunters think their college education has lost value in hoen defective AI can be the job market thanks to AI.
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Depends on what their degrees were in. Most were probably BS before AI came along anyway.
AI is a threat to RI (real intellegence).
Learn a trade.
A BSEE is a home run in any economy. Never unemployed for 40 years.
And right in this VERY sentence is proof why AI is not the job killer they think it is.
Or, to put it another way, "Thurm value in hoen defective AI can is be the job price nove market thanks."
LOL
Many college degrees do not provide a direct link to jobs in the job market.
Suppose someone has a degree in women’s studies, for example. How many jobs require a degree in that field? Or what about a degree in philosophy? How many jobs are there for philosophers?
that which is learned while obtaining an advanced degree isn’t meant to last forever in rapidly changing fields: to stay relevant, one has to continuously learn new ways and new facts and theories, essentially for a lifetime ...
in many ways, a STEM degree becomes quickly obsolete in rapidly changing fields in terms of the facts that were learned ... but the value of a STEM degree lies in learning the foundations of a field from those steeped in the field themselves for decades ...
personally i’m retired, but continuously learn new things every day ... for example, i just learned the value of Grok 3, and i feel like a kid in a learning candy store because of that ... Grok 3, which isn’t actually AI as claimed, is a revolutionary search engine with the ability to synthesize it’s result in natural language ... it’s also fun to instruct it make images, stories and dialogs ...
Any Gen Z student who had actually studied like previous generations of college students would have actually come out with good habits and better skills than most of their peers.
Hoen is Dutch for grouse, the little turkey-like bird.
“has lost value in grouse defective AI”
Learn to code!................
I felt the same way about my sociology degree. Turned out it applied to my career in ways I never expected.
Honestly, that happens with or without AI in astonishingly greater frequency these days in communication from the front line all the way to the C suite.
You know what jobs aren’t affected by AI? Trades, and trade schools won’t put you in insane debt either, but kids have been indoctrinated for decades that the only way to succeed is a college degree.
Like Rush would say, “I told you so.” Most of them shouldn’t even have college certificates of attendance. A lot would have NOT gone to college if they had to pay for it.
There are going to be “general” AIs that “hallucinate” answers in specific realms, and tuned AIs that return only grounded answers for those specific realms. It’s all shaking out incredibly fast - give it no more than 10 years.
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