trafalgar28 OP t1_j62zqc1 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 10:07 AM

Reply to comment by Bierculles in Is Our Digital Future At Risk Because Of The Gen Z Skills Gap? by trafalgar28

As you rightly said every company wants a skilled person. I personally think this is because in today's world, we young people (born after 2000) have access to sooo many things that we can easily become skilled enough to do a job.(I'm talking about an avg software engineer's job).

Now, on the other hand, AI, in particular, is really confusing even for employer(HR) in big tech companies(don't know much about startups or small companies). Most of the courses or BootCamp just teach about ML, but in the real-world AI is all about data, as an MLE 80% job would be in processing the data. I think here's where the problem is, the real-world project is way different from some projects like on Kaggle.

The problem is guidance, unfortunately we young people have to invest our loads of time doing mistakes & learning stuffs, being & doing smart work. I kind of agree with the companies because we should be expected to be more skilled than previous generation because the accessibilty we have & exposure to this technologies in early age.

Sorry if I'm wrong, I'm new to AI. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Bierculles t1_j631au4 wrote on January 27, 2023 at 10:29 AM

your not wrong, but just expecting later generations to do twice the work than the previous generation just to get hired somewhere is clearly not working out as we can see with the shortage in skilled staff. Yes, we have access to a lot of information, but there are many things the vast majority of people simply can't learn on their own in a reasonable timeframe. Just telling peoplt to git gud is clearly not the solution, we need to rethink how we teach people for fields like that.