{"id":40974,"date":"2025-08-03T14:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40974\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T14:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T14:14:08","slug":"openai-chairman-to-students-studying-computer-science-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/40974\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI chairman to students: &#8216;Studying computer science is\u2026&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/OpenAI-executive-to-students-Studying-computer-science-is.jpg\" alt=\"OpenAI chairman to students: 'Studying computer science is\u2026'\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/openai\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI<\/a> chairman Bret Taylor said that studying computer science remains &#8220;extremely valuable\u201d in the era of artificial intelligence (AI). The executive emphasized that these degrees build \u2018systems thinking\u2019, a key skill that remains important even as AI coding tools become widespread. He emphasized that the skill helps in product development and is a critical skill that AI tools cannot replace.According to a Business Insider report, Taylor emphasized that this skill will continue to be essential even as AI coding tools progresses. He said a computer science degree gives students a deeper understanding of important topics like Big O notation, complexity theory, randomized algorithms, and cache misses.\u201cStudying computer science is a different answer than learning to code, but I would say I still think it\u2019s extremely valuable to study computer science,\u201d Taylor said. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft founder Bill Gates says AI won\u2019t replace programming as a career<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in early July, the Microsoft co-founder said that programming will \u201cremain a human job for at least a century\u201d. Writing software, he argues, is less about typing syntax and more about spotting unseen patterns, judging trade-offs and making a leap no algorithm can anticipate. AI can already draft snippets, debug routine errors and suggest architectural templates, yet the spark that turns a half-baked idea into working logic still comes from a person at a keyboard.Gates shared the view in separate conversations with The Economic Times and The Tonight Show, then echoed it during a podcast with Zerodha\u2019s Nikhil Kamath. Each time, he circled back to the same point: tools like Copilot and ChatGPT are power chisels, not replacement carpenters. They enhance human productivity, creativity, and problem-solving across multiple industries and sectors. These AI tools shorten repetitive grunt work but ultimately leave the blueprint and decision-making to us.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft\u2019s AI Bet Pays Off: Company Joins Nvidia in $4 Trillion Club<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OpenAI chairman Bret Taylor said that studying computer science remains &#8220;extremely valuable\u201d in the era of artificial intelligence&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,4311,733,4308,6181,23574,23573,696,874,23572,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-40974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-coding-tools","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-bill-gates","tag-bret-taylor","tag-computer-science-education","tag-microsoft","tag-openai","tag-programming-careers","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}