Re: degrees

On 20/10/2024 8:45 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 13:02:55 -0400, bitrex wrote:
 

On 10/19/2024 12:49 PM, john larkin wrote:

On Sat, 19 Oct 2024 12:31:39 -0400, bitrex <user@example.net> wrote:
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On 10/19/2024 11:58 AM, john larkin wrote:

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I wonder how many people with degrees in film-making or music theory or
sociology ever get good jobs in their field.

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I knew a guy in college who like drawing superheros ever since he was a
child, even at 17 he was very good at it, 4 years of art school made him
exceptional, got a job with one of the big-name companies right out of
school. Another friend is on her second novel and they sell pretty good.
So it does happen, but talent is hard to teach. It's certainly easier
than ever with YT and Amazon and social media to get exposure.

 That field - like so many others - is ripe for redundancy due to AI.

Cursitor Doom hasn't worked out that ChatGP looks intelligent because it has a huge amount of text to copy and paste from. It doesn't have the judgement to reject unreliable sources (and consequent generates misleading text from time to time). It doesn't seem to be able to create new ideas or novel points of view.
There are fields where AI is useful - it solved the protein folding problem because, when properly programmed, a big enough data base can keep track of more data than the human brain can manage - but entertaining human beings probably isn't one of them.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney