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Reed Hastings said STEM is going to be 'overdone'

All Content from Business Insider·Aditi Bharade·about 1 month ago
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Reed Hastings said that in the age of AI, the humanities will once again be important. Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said STEM will be "overdone" in the age of AI. He said society will do a "rotation back to the humanities" and toward more emotional pursuits. "If I had a three-year-old today, I would be like doubling down on the emotional skills," he said. Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings said STEM is "overdone," and people need to look at the humanities instead. In an interview on the "Possible" podcast, released on Wednesday, Hastings said that in the age of AI, emotional things such as entertainment, art, or sports will not be "the big thrust of the AI world." "You're not going to watch a basketball game of robots," he said. Meanwhile, he said AI is very good at thinking and logic-driven pursuits, and will progress rapidly in fields such as software engineering and medicine.…

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