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I’m sorry…people think having majors and courses related to AI is now “shoving [AI] down [their] throats”?
9 upvotes, 7 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "I’m sorry…people think having majors and courses related to AI is now “shoving [AI] down [their] throats”?"
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Anonymous 5d

Yes it is? AI is proving to be a net negative for society and the universities are just starting degrees in it because the AI companies pay a lot of money to them

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Anonymous 4d

If it’s a required course then yes, it absolutely is.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

Do you think AI is only LLMs? There are plenty of valid uses for AI

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 5d

Not in the degrees being taught in universities at the current moment. Everything right now still revolves around training the models to eventually do something useful like surgery. This isn’t doctors being trained to use an AI-assisted robot for heart surgery this is just repackaged database/data scientist degrees

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 5d

Yeah so as a data science major I can tell you that the Penn State Data Science and AI Engineering curriculums are not the same (not even that many similarities, actually). And no one is forcing you to take these courses unless you enroll in the major, so “shoving them down your throat” makes zero sense

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 4d

It’s not a required course, and they’re complaining about the major as well

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4d

Many schools are starting to require AI courses, or incorporating it into already existing classes. Maybe not in this specific case, but that’s the widespread trend

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