Key Highlights
- “Obviously, just being a competent mid level programmer is not going to be a career for much longer, because AI can do that.” Hinton predicted that a CS degree is valuable for more than just coding, and believes that a CS degree will be valuable for quite a long time.
- The Nobel Prize and Turing Award winner drew a parallel between learning coding and how humanities students learn Latin.
- He said, “I think it’s very useful to learn to code, and even if they end up not having AI do all the coding for them.” “I think learning to code is maybe a bit like learning Latin if you’re in the humanities or something.
- You’re never going to speak Latin, but it’s still useful learning Latin,” Hinton added.
- “Some skills that are always going to be valuable, like knowing some maths, statistics and probability theory, and things like linear algebra, will always be valuable,” he further noted.
