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With generative AI, do we still need universities?

The answer lies in the human skills that are beyond the competence of machines.

With ever-growing forms of AI at our doorstep, the future graduate must purposefully pursue learning experiences that are expansive and immersive.

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Lily Kong and Lim Sun Sun

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Around the world, students entering university in 2023 are in both a privileged and an unenviable position at the same time.

Privileged because human innovation affords them access to mind-blowing technologies such as

generative artificial intelligence (AI)

to supercharge their learning. But by the same token, unenviable because generative AI is so formidable that students may wonder whether their own efforts at learning may seem feeble or even futile in comparison.

With generative AI, do we still need universities?

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