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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:

- 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

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]

[b]Maybe google instead of asking people to do the work for you????[/b]

Why Google Hires Humanities Majors?
https://imagine.jhu.edu/blog/2024/02/15/why-google-hires-humanities-majors/

I'm an AI startup founder and love hiring liberal arts grads. They give us a surprising edge.
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-companies-hiring-liberal-arts-humanities-grads-2024-2

Why Studying Humanities and Arts Is Key to Developing Artificial Intelligence
https://bigcloud.global/why-studying-humanities-and-arts-is-key-to-developing-artificial-intelligence/

Humanities majors still matter in age of AI
https://www.emorywheel.com/article/2024/11/humanities-majors-still-matter-in-age-of-ai

How will the rise of AI in the workplace impact liberal arts education?
https://www.highereddive.com/news/artificial-intelligence-liberal-arts-education/720640/[/quote]

The first two articles don’t support your point at all so I didn’t bother going further.

First article says Google likes some variety in hiring but mostly hires technical folks.  Same comment for GS.

Second article says they hire many liberal arts grads in fields like data science and other quantitative area…CS, Math, physics are taught in the liberal arts.  Says they like the humanities aspects of this liberal arts education.

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