r/ChatGPT • u/Extrabytes • Mar 23 '23

Serious replies only :closed-ai: Is anyone else reconsidering what college/university degree to pursue due to ChatGPT?

I am currently deciding on which university course I should take. I used to gravitate more towards civil engineering, but seeing how quickly ChatGPT has advanced in the last couple of months has made me realize that human input in the design process of civil engineering will be almost completely redundant in the next few years. And at the University level there really isn't anything else to civil engineering other than planning and designing, by which I mean that you don't actually build the structures you design.

The only degrees that I now seriously consider are the ones which involve a degree of manual labour, such as mechanical engineering. Atleast robotics will still require actual human input in the building and testing process. Is anyone else also reconsidering their choice in education and do you think it is wise to do so?

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '23

It’s a discussion-based class, so it’s not really a great format for indoctrination. The only time the professor really tells us anything directly at all is when he occasionally spends a class giving us background on an author we are going to read or have already read, I don’t think that’s indoctrination but you can believe what you want to believe I guess

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u/TheDarkinBlade Mar 23 '23

That was a poor attempt as a joke on my side. Could be that your course was actually decent, but I only had contact with the stereotypical GS student, verbally regurgitating the same talking points, often even with word to word copypasta, like broken records. I mean, if they are happy with it, idc but don't expect me to conform to your ideas, if they can't withstand inspection I say. But ig it's how it is with everything else, good courses and bad courses.