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She's wrong about the advantages of AI, but she's right about how companies are going to see it. It's true that they'd rather deal with AI than an intern, and it's true then that internships will fall onto the universities to coordinate like rotations as part of an expensive education system.
It's also true that kids are learning how to use AI on their own, and are losing their ability to learn from any datapoints, because why do that if the magic box will give you an answer that sounds correct enough? Ultimately, it doesn't matter how useless AI is if everyone acts as if it's as useful as this lady thinks it is.
This was already a thing when I went to university over a decade ago. Partnerships with local businesses where university students basically do work placements, completing low-stakes corporate projects as assignments.
I know this goes against expectation but it was actually really good. I think the difference was that the business actually cared about us, taught us things, and even extended a job offer to people who did well.
I dunno if that program is still good today, probably not.
Yeah, local students do projects for local manufacturing plants to find efficiency improvements. I have second hand knowledge (girlfriend)