First, let me get it out: you are statistically better in our modern world to have a great career (financially) if you studied electronics/computer engineering than Igbo language. Yes, technical degrees typically outperform non-technical degrees on career resilience and financial rewards, on average.
Yet, that construct has blindfolded many of us to think that Computer Science, Electronics and similar domains are absolute on career security. In this age, there is nothing like that. One AI could replace a whole company and its amalgam of computer scientists. In other words, no one is safe!
Where am I going? Facebook’s parent company, Meta, has started laying off another batch of global citizens and this batch has many technical staff: “ Employees in fields like software engineering, graphics programming and gameplay development were among those affected Wednesday, according to LinkedIn posts. … anonymous sources told CNBC. In total, Meta plans to let go of 21,000 employees between two rounds of layoffs”.
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Good People, everything has changed. The only job security now is Knowledge and that knowledge has to be dynamic. And it has to be a moving average, otherwise, many will experience the Stage, the political ad which Obama world ran against Mitt Romney, telling the world that Romney bought a company, and asked the workers to build a nice stage, only for him to arrive, mount the stage and told them that they were fired! Most people today improving AI models are building a stage. To survive your career, a new knowledge system has become important because machines may do most of the techy stuff.
As I sat down, I saw a political ad: a factory man explained how Mitt Romney (competing against Obama for US presidency) had asked them to build a stage, and how Romney later came, and fired all of them while standing on that stage. That was my first time of watching the “Stage”, the ad that destroyed Romney’s any chance of winning the presidency. How do you ask people to build a stage so that you can be visible as you fire them? The message was politically lethal. (The advert below)
That takes me to the news that Goldman Sachs software developers are now using ChatGPT to get their codes going: “Reports reveal that software developers at leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm, Goldman Sachs, are internally using generative AI tools to assist in writing and testing codes.”
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Some of these corporations over hire, because there are truckloads of money, and when stocks start depreciating, with decline in sales, they suddenly realize that they were overstaffed all along.
Well, nothing is permanent in the marketplace, the same innovations that some cheer will bring pains to others, it has always been like that. It is the same humans who create problems that also work out solutions, and within those two poles, jobs are created.
Wetin concern language with technology no wam..at least u ur message e clear! Na Ai be the new sh***, if u ask me only ob fit bring us to light as e dey hot..This is not a campaign….wen will 9ja be up to speed the youth smart the gov dull..