Are degrees in the UK value for money?

GreatApe

kabayiri wrote: »

I worked in AI. They have been advertising the 'dawn of a new age' for years now.

I understand why. If you don't self promote you don't get funding.

AI may make some significant advances, but I feel confident it will fall flat on it's backside along the way a number of times.

Even if someone does perfect it, they will take the opportunity to max out their profit before sharing the tech elsewhere. It could even lead to more division, not less.

Its already here and there are already applications benefitting from this specific AI

What is not yet in existence is general AI

kabayiri

GreatApe wrote: »

Its already here and there are already applications benefitting from this specific AI

What is not yet in existence is general AI

It's this general AI which is the most difficult nut to crack.

We often talk about common sense, as though it is a no brainer, when actually it is laden with context.

We had an expert system which was constantly diagnosing a complex piece of machinery which cost megabucks. It was the environmental things which often tripped up the rule system; things like changing worker patterns and human bias.

Of course progress will be made, but don't throw away that spreadsheet app just yet!

Jackmydad

westernpromise wrote: »

That sounds like a very accurate description of the Allegro: a car engineered by someone who did a slightly better job than a gold management graduate would have done. What a ringing endorsement! Although the golf guy, who would think about design, would probably have known not to give it a square steering wheel.

If we had "golf guys" instead of engineers, there'd have been no cars in the first place, let alone engines like the A series which was innovative when it first came out.
The Allegro had it's faults. No doubt about it, but most cars back then did.
Everyone jumped on the Allegro for it's faults, because it was a product of BL.

Even the quartic steering wheel was fitted for a reason.
It was a mistake, but then mistakes do get made.

But whatever. Good or bad, you need engineers to design things.
You don't "need" people with degrees in all the spurious made up subjects that are available today.

And if those people did design a car, you'd expect the wheels to fall off! :rotfl:
(Which in the case of the Allegro was down to mechanics not realising the car was fitted with taper rollers on the rear wheels and tightening them right up as per earlier models).