Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artificial Intelligence

Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by learc83 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @08:32PM (#17044076)

That's exactly the opposite of what happens to most graduates with specialized degrees.

They end up having to explain their degrees, which is generally not a good thing. It happens all the time with engineering. In the job market a degree in mechanical engineering is in general worth more than one in robotics.

You also run the risk of graduating into another AI winter, or just deciding you hate AI, and then you really have to try hard to explain that your degree is really just a CS degree.

Imagine graduating now with an undergrad in big data--that sounded like a good idea 5 years ago.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by MikkoFinell on Friday May 11, 2018 @12:26AM (#17044962)

> Imagine graduating now with an undergrad in big data--that sounded like a good idea 5 years ago.

Is that a good analogy? Big data started out as a marketing buzzword, whereas AI always was an academic field of research.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by learc83 on Friday May 11, 2018 @01:46AM (#17045206)

AI is a very overloaded term. What we currently call "AI" is likely suffering from the same hype bubble that big data did.

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by arbie on Friday May 11, 2018 @02:34AM (#17045356)

And yet, most of today's commercial AI requires "big data".

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Re:Carnegie Mellon Launches Undergraduate Degree in Artifici... by learc83 on Friday May 11, 2018 @05:24PM (#17050904)

Yeah big data can be very useful. The reality just doesn't match the hype.

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