Compsci Grads Are Cooked

If you specialize in computer science or computer engineering at the present time, success in finding a good job when you get your diploma – even if you graduate from a higher program.

This is a discreet ready -made meals from Hany Farid, DeepFake expert at the University of California, Berkeley, who appeared in the “Thought particles” in Nova to speak with the current state of the spontaneous organization, and the position of the technical function that was torn by many specific displacement, and how this technology graduates should move in the new rocky scene.

“Our students usually have five internal training offers throughout the first four years of the college,” said Farid on Berkeley’s computer students. “They graduated with very high salaries, and multiple offers. They had to run the place.”

He said: “This does not happen today.” “They are happy to have one job offer.”

A unique note is clarified through job statistics for new university graduates, who are now 5.3 percent unemployment compared to about 4 percent for everyone.

The numbers are worse for young people with certificates in computer science, who have a 6.1 percent unemployment rate – as well as for computer engineering graduates, 7.5 percent; In comparison, their peers who have been specialized in art history are currently about 3 percent.

“There is something happening in this industry,” Farid said, noting the spread of increased artificial intelligence and “thinning of ranks” in technology companies for possible reasons.

The main factors that lead the high unemployment rate among technicians are that many companies have adopted the coding of an atmosphere and other artificial intelligence tools with the removal of entry level staff, along with crawling again from employment during the roaming epidemic.

Young people I met New York Times Once again, in August, they said they felt that they had been withdrawn by an industry that promised six salaries of six numbers, large signing bonuses and first -class benefits. Graduates had to get out of the technology and crowding sector in another industry completely, as some apply for fast food jobs in a state of despair.

Farid said he had previously recommended that young people get a wide education, and then specialize in depth in something; Now he tells them that “they are good in many different things because we do not know what the future hides.”

He said, “You need options,” while also recommends that AI be harnessed in its work to stay in the foreground.

This seems to be a sound recommendation, but maybe university students should make something more extreme, as the technology industry seems to be built on the basis of sand: studying something you love, not just something that earns money.

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