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AI killed the maths brain
AI’s takeover of jobs may come first for computer science.
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With the ability to task AI to code, start-ups and tech giants alike are hiring fewer and fewer entry-level computer scientists.
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Leif Weatherby
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ChatGPT was released 2½ years ago, and we have been in a public panic ever since. Artificial intelligence (AI) can write in a way that passes for a human, creating fear that relying too heavily on machine-generated text will diminish our ability to read and write at a high level. We’ve heard that the college essay is dead, and that an alarming number of students use AI tools to cheat their way through college.
This has the potential to undermine the future of jobs, education and art all at once.
