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Philosophers Are the Latest Hiring Target for AI Companies (www.nytimes.com)

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Who’s underemployed now?

headline from official webpage title. print headline is "The Revenge of the Philosophy Majors"

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[–] reversedposterior@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Hitchhiker's Guide anyone?

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Just filing away the movie and thinking how nothing will ever compare to the books, though it's been a while since I've read it. What's the connection here?

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They (the "mice") build Deep Thought to solve the biggest philosopical question, the meaning of life, the universe and everything.

But with the Vogons galactic cock-up terminating the program right before its second attempt completed, they sorta just gave up and needed to find something that sounds profound enough to go on talk shows.

[–] schipelblorp@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

Oh, yeah, I forgot about Deep Thought. I always thought of him as a super advanced mainframe and Marvin more as an AI.

[–] reversedposterior@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

In addition to the other answer, there's also a scene where philosophers feel like Deep Thought is stealing their jobs and then it comes up with a way to make them infinitely famous by getting them to appear like they are arguing about something profound