{"id":179605,"date":"2024-01-01T00:22:50","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T06:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/thanks-to-ai-you-dont-need-a-computer-science-degree-to-get-a-job-in-tech-ibm-ai-chief-says"},"modified":"2024-01-01T00:22:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-01T06:22:50","slug":"thanks-to-ai-you-dont-need-a-computer-science-degree-to-get-a-job-in-tech-ibm-ai-chief-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/thanks-to-ai-you-dont-need-a-computer-science-degree-to-get-a-job-in-tech-ibm-ai-chief-says","title":{"rendered":"Thanks to AI, you don\u2019t need a computer science degree to get a job in tech, IBM AI chief says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/thanks-to-ai-you-dont-need-a-computer-science-degree-to-get-a-job-in-tech-ibm-ai-chief-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to Candy, the rise of AI would instead put a premium on soft skills like critical and creative thinking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cQuestioning, creativity skills, and innovation are going to be hugely important because I think AI\u2019s going to free up more capacity for creative thought processes,\u201d he told Fortune earlier.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not just jobs in tech, though. Candy said that advances in AI image-generation technology could also affect those working in the arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Candy, the rise of AI would instead put a premium on soft skills like critical and creative thinking. \u201cQuestioning, creativity skills, and innovation are going to be hugely important because I think AI\u2019s going to free up more capacity for creative thought processes,\u201d he told Fortune earlier. It\u2019s not just jobs in tech, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1878,6,224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-employment","category-robotics-ai","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}