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These are working professionals who
don’t need to quit their jobs, who may
have young families, and they can enroll, earn their master’s and continue
to grow in their careers. You can get
the whole program for seven, eight
thousand dollars and do it entirely
online when you work.
Our computer sciences ranking
has never been stronger. Some of the
fears at the beginning of this process
were proven to be exaggerated. In fact,
we’ve had the opposite impact. So we
figured that we can have an impact on
non-traditional students. That is the
basis for the new college of a lifetime.
white-collar jobs, including computer
PK Let’s talk about Artificial Intelligence. programmers, would be safe. But this
new wave of AI is now having computThat’s the hot topic now along with
cyber security. Is Tech right where you ers do things that we didn’t know were
possible. Computers now write very
want it to be with that aspect?
well, research very well, and program
very well. So there’s a lot of excitement
AC Yes, and AI is changing every
but there’s also fear.
possible industry. We used to see
However, there is a huge value in
computers or robots as a threat for
AI.
If
AI can free us from the parts of
blue collar jobs and manufacturing
and so on. And we thought that maybe our job that are tedious, that are not
very fulfilling and give us more time
to do our jobs that are much more
creative, the result is going to be good.
But that means we start embedding
those tools into the way we teach, the
way we learn and everything that we
do. That’s what we try to do at Georgia
Tech. So rather than being hostile to
the new technology, we’re trying to
find out how best to incorporate it into
everything that we do.
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