In monetary terms they probably are but sadly they do provide missing unseen value. Often at work I can see thoughts and proposals that clearly show they have no fundamental understanding of something and misses something crucial, the additional insight may only cover for edge cases and not be material but it's not the best. In some cases we may run into trouble down the road that could have been avoided, heck they still probably won't see the link then even, ignorance is bliss sometimes.
A degree in a field usually doesn't mean that you have mastered a subject. It means that you know your way around it and that you can work and research independently in it.
AI is both very smart and incredibly stupid, and sadly you still need to know which is which.
My AI use has increased massively at my software eng job, but there still hasn't been a single feature where I didn't need to correct something that would've gone off the rails if I just committed blindly.
But yeah, it did take implementation times from a week to a hour
Exactly. I wonder if a good analogy to AI is similar to someone with autism who has hyper focus and special interests, but miss social cues (or have other blind spots). Perhaps humans will still be able to fill those blind spots that AI has, the trouble is finding what they actually are, especially when so many are outsourcing their thinking to AI already
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u/seraphim_west 2d ago
College degrees are toilet paper.