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 2 points 5 hours 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

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