{"id":57403,"date":"2017-05-16T10:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T17:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-automation-an-ai-expert-says"},"modified":"2017-05-20T09:00:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-20T16:00:55","slug":"your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-automation-an-ai-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-automation-an-ai-expert-says","title":{"rendered":"Your art degree might save you from automation, an AI expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-automation-an-ai-expert-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When machines control all the world\u2019s finances and run factory floors, what will humans be left to do?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll make art, says Kai-Fu Lee, a former Google and Microsoft executive who has since launched VC firm Sinovation Ventures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArt and beauty is very hard to replicate with AI. Given AI is more objective, analytical, data driven, maybe it\u2019s time for some of us to switch to the humanities, liberal arts, and beauty,\u201d Lee told Quartz editor-in-chief Kevin Delaney during a live Q&amp;A session. \u201cMaybe professions where it\u2019s hard to find a job might be good to study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/qz.com\/984749\/your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-automation-ai-expert-kai-fu-lee-says\/\">https:\/\/qz.com\/984749\/your-art-degree-might-save-you-from-au...-lee-says\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When machines control all the world\u2019s finances and run factory floors, what will humans be left to do? We\u2019ll make art, says Kai-Fu Lee, a former Google and Microsoft executive who has since launched VC firm Sinovation Ventures. \u201cArt and beauty is very hard to replicate with AI. Given AI is more objective, analytical, data [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57534,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57403\/revisions\/57534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}