A great piece from Ben Wright:
Reports of English literature’s death have been greatly exaggerated
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/10/reports-english-literature-death-have-greatly-exaggerated/
For years now, we’ve been telling students to focus on Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects in the belief that a strong knowledge in these areas was the key to gaining entry to a whole range of industries. When you work in the money markets (or law courts, or Silicon Valley), what use are the novels of Wordsworth gonna be, eh? That’s not complete nonsense but now the pendulum is in danger of swinging too far…
Strangely, a chronic problem has become acute with the advent of artificial intelligence. Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, caused a bit of flutter earlier this year when he tweeted: “The hottest new programming language is English.” What he meant is that increasingly you don’t need to be able to code to code.
Reports of English literature’s death have been greatly exaggerated
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/12/10/reports-english-literature-death-have-greatly-exaggerated/
For years now, we’ve been telling students to focus on Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects in the belief that a strong knowledge in these areas was the key to gaining entry to a whole range of industries. When you work in the money markets (or law courts, or Silicon Valley), what use are the novels of Wordsworth gonna be, eh? That’s not complete nonsense but now the pendulum is in danger of swinging too far…
Strangely, a chronic problem has become acute with the advent of artificial intelligence. Andrej Karpathy, one of the founding members of OpenAI, caused a bit of flutter earlier this year when he tweeted: “The hottest new programming language is English.” What he meant is that increasingly you don’t need to be able to code to code.
Closing the AI Skills Gap in 2025
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-skills-gap-education-career-training-must-catch-up-by-justina-nixon-saintil-2024-12
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/ai-skills-gap-education-career-training-must-catch-up-by-justina-nixon-saintil-2024-12