AI and What the Heck to Major In (if at all?)

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Tell your kid to go to drama school, or become a pro athlete. People will still want to see movies/tv shows with real people acting, and sports with real people playing.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell your kid to go to drama school, or become a pro athlete. People will still want to see movies/tv shows with real people acting, and sports with real people playing.

Sports yes...but the big thing in the film world is stars making sure their estates will benefit from AI use of their likeness after they die.

Live theatre is a different story.

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Anonymous wrote:Physical Therapy & Psychology will be like CS is now in 10 years

So true. Also Psychiatry will NEVER be taken over by AI. Can you imagine AI dealing with someone who has anxiety or someone in a manic episode. There is also no algorithm for that.

+1. I would go into something mental health related, because as people lose their jobs due to AI, there will be lots of mental illness.

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Anonymous wrote:Physical Therapy & Psychology will be like CS is now in 10 years

So true. Also Psychiatry will NEVER be taken over by AI. Can you imagine AI dealing with someone who has anxiety or someone in a manic episode. There is also no algorithm for that.

Not so fast; the more science learns about the biology of psychiatry, the more AI will have a part to play (80% remember, not 100%). I can imagine bio monitors that target biochemistry and the brain noticing triggers before a human could, sensing patterns related to behavior, adjusting dopamine levels, etc. etc. Look to sci-fi -- what can be imagined can be done.

Hal: Look Dave, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.

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HAL: Well, certainly no one could have been unaware of the very strange stories floating around before we left. Rumors about something being dug up on the Moon. I never gave these stories much credence, but particularly in view of some of other things that have happened, I find them difficult to put out of my mind. For instance, the way all our preparations were kept under such tight security. And the melodramatic touch of putting Drs. Hunter, Kimball and Kaminsky aboard already in hibernation, after four months of training on their own.
Dave Bowman: You're working up your crew psychology report?
HAL: [pausing for a few seconds] Of course I am.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell your kid to go to drama school, or become a pro athlete. People will still want to see movies/tv shows with real people acting, and sports with real people playing.

AI is already infecting entertainment: writing, CGI acting, music.

[Anonymous]

That's a good question. I think it's good to major in something that gets you engaged in reading, expressing yourself in writing and speaking, deep thought, and learning about humanity and how the world works.

A multi-disciplinary degree taking from English, History, Philosophy, Economics, and Political Science (with a core foundation that includes science and the arts to round it out) sounds fascinating.

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Anonymous wrote:From the WSJ AI Conference:

Earlier Tuesday, Vinod Khosla, a prominent venture capitalist whose firm was one of OpenAI’s earliest backers, laid out a stark timeline for AI’s transformation of work. Within 10 years AI will be able to “do 80% of 80% of all jobs that we know of today,” said Khosla, a tech investor and entrepreneur for more than 40 years.

He pointed to many types of physicians and accountants as examples of professions that AI could largely supplant because these systems can more easily access a broad array of knowledge. Khosla likened the extent of the workforce changes to the disappearance of agricultural jobs in the U.S. in the 20th Century—a transition that took place over generations, not years.

Bright future for AI engineers!

[Anonymous]

I don't think AI will meaningfully decrease employment in most healthcare fields anytime soon. Focus on medical specialties that require a physical in-person presence to insulate yourself from the impacts automation. Were still need people to treat accident victims in the ER and AI will not be replacing these doctors anytime soon. Same thing with surgical procedures and cosmetic treatments. Nursing is the same way, good luck getting an elderly person with dementia to listen to do anything with AI. A robot is not going to be effective at dealing with a confused person with memory issues.

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Healthcare is definitely one of the safest fields to go into. Become a Nurse, Physician assistant or MD.

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Anonymous wrote:Tell your kid to go to drama school, or become a pro athlete. People will still want to see movies/tv shows with real people acting, and sports with real people playing.

Sports yes...but the big thing in the film world is stars making sure their estates will benefit from AI use of their likeness after they die.

Live theatre is a different story.

Yes, do not go into acting or try to make it in Hollywood. The future of film will be every movie has AI cast (with mostly dead A-list stars) like Angelina Jolie and Bruce Willis in movies 50 years

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Anonymous wrote:When cost of a product goes down, demand goes up.

It's good that radiologists can process scans more quickly. We need more scans.

I agree, with the aging of our population, we can upskill more radiologist managers to babysit these theoretical AI diagnostic machines. A radiologist should be completely re-educatable. We're not talking about a barely literate, unskilled workforce here.

Also...when more medical testing is done, more conditions are detected, and then more care gets provided. This is a well-known loop. It's why so many employers had to switch to high-deductible plans. To make employees care about how much testing was being done and the health benefit of the information.