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Armin Chitizadeh, a Sydney University lecturer who formerly ran UNSW’s artificial intelligence course, has noted some companies requiring graduate workers to be skilled in generative AI programs.
He thought educators “should make [students] comfortable using generative AI”, finding that the technology will be “part of our daily life more and more”.
“The industry wants anything that improves their quality; if it can help them to make a product faster or better, or both of them combined, they will definitely use that,” Chitizadeh said.
Abigail Bobkowski, a fourth-year arts student at the University of Sydney, found a huge AI uptake among students in some areas of her degree.
“One of my professors always says, ‘AI is not going to take your job, but you’re going to lose your job to the person who can use it,’ ” Bobkowski said.
“It’s that type of preparedness that some professors are really on board with, and I think the whole university is moving toward that model of education.”
Suryanto advises fellow students to adapt to new technologies as they emerge, calling this the “one thing we have over AI at the moment”.
“It could be likened to trying to catch a runaway train with how quickly everything is going,” Suryanto said. “As unfortunate as it is, the university will not be able to teach you everything, especially not with AI coming into the workforce.”
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