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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anyone catch the Fareed Zakaria interview today with Hoffman on the impact of AI on job market/new world order with AI, and that yrs the “revenge of the English major” - meaning it’s a valuable major now in a world where other tasks are commoditized and diminished in value?

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I watched it. His point was that English majors (and equivalent humanities majors) are better at crafting prompts than STEM folks. Generative AI is fueled by natural language prompts, so the ability to translate various business needs into clear, effective prompts is crucial to the success of AI.[/quote]

People should read the NYT article about how the CEO of Klarna is just giddy about replacing people with AI.

His examples:

- [b]got rid of most of the marketing and creatives working on advertising and marketing because AI can produce what’s needed for corporate marketing

- reduced in-house legal staff because AI can do first drafts of standard corporate contracts and any legal research

- replaced most customer support people with AI chatbots
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He hasn’t hired anyone since 2023 even though the company is much larger.

No surprise, most of the existing 2000 employees are technical employees.

So again, can anyone tell me what all these humanities majors will actually be hired to do in this AI future?[/quote]

humanities majors wouldn't be doing any of that stuff. 
they'd be taking what the tech people do and refining it. So manage the techies.
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Most lawyers are humanities majors undergrad.  I don’t know what creatives would be considered…but certainly not STEM or quantitative.

Once more, the number of humanities majors at this actual company are outnumbered 20-to-1 by STEM and quantitative folks.[/quote]

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