Maria Gutzeit | Why We Will Still Need the Human Factor

The William S. Hart Union High School District’s College and Career Fair and the Valley Industry Association’s Connecting to Success are both coming up next month. They aim to help students think about what comes next.

Some people know from an early age just what they want to do in life. Most of us need a little spark to get going in a certain direction.

Recently I overheard some graduating high school students talking about where they were going to college and what they’d be studying. I found myself in a cluster of engineering and science students at a high school band concert!

At least anecdotally, there’s a lot of overlap between the creativity of music and the math/engineering orientation of some students. That gives me hope, because I fear the current wave of “science” is actually wrecking science.

We need science even more in the age of artificial intelligence. AI is all the rage, but AI won’t save us from bad data.

It has great potential, and great potential to be wrong. According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, some of the reasons for this are biases in the input training........

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