I say … no. In fact, my mission today is to tell you that your education was NO free. You have a great future ahead of you, no matter how bright and talented chatgpt, Claude, Gemini and Llam are given. Here is the reason: you have something that no computer can have. This is superpower and each of you has it in abundance.
Your humanity.
Graduates of liberal arts, you studied in topics such as psychology. History. Anthropology. Studies of African American, Asia and Gender. Sociology. Languages. Philosophy. Political sciences. Religion. Criminal justice. Economics. And there are even some English directions like me.
Each of these respondents involves studying and interpreting human behavior and human creativity with empathy, which only people can bring to this task. Observations that you conduct in social sciences, analyzes that you create about art and culture, lessons that you communicate from research, have invaluable authenticity, based on the straightforward fact that you devote your attention, intelligence and awareness of other homo sapiens. People, that’s why we call them humanities.
AI lords spend hundreds of billions of dollars so that their models think like talented people. You just spent four years at Temple University, learning to think as talented people. The difference is immeasurable.
This is something that even understands the Silicon Valley, from the time when Steve Jobs told me four decades ago that he wants to marry computers and liberated arts. I once wrote the story of Google. Originally, his co -founder Larry Page was based on the employment of anyone who had no IT degree. But the company realized that it lost the talent needed for communication, business strategy, management, marketing and internal culture. Some of those he employed and then hired, became one of the company’s most valuable employees.
Even in AI companies. Grads of liberal arts can develop. Did you know that the President of Antropika, one of the best generative creators of AI, was English? Joan Didion justified.
What’s more, your work is doing something that AI can never do: he creates a real human relationship. Opeli recently boasted that he had trained one of the latest models to throw out artistic writing. It can combine cold sentences – but this is not what we are really looking for books, visual arts, films and critics. How would you feel if you read a novel that shifted the way you saw the world, heard a podcast that raised your spirit, saw a movie that blew your mind, heard a music song that moved your soul, and only after you were inspired and transformed, she learned that she was not created by a person, but a robot? You can feel cheated.
And it’s more than a feeling. In 2023, some researchers published an article This is just confirming. In blind experiments, people valued what they read more when they thought that they were from other people, not a sophisticated system that raises humanity. In another Blind experimentThe participants were shown an abstract art created by both people and AI. Although they could not say what was when the respondents were asked which photos they like better, those created by man came out on top. Other research involved MRI of the brain. . Scans were also shown People answered more positively when they thought that people, not AI, created works of art. Almost as if this connection was original.