In the recent "All-In Podcast" roundtable, NVIDIA's CEOJensen Huang gave his"college application" guidance.Previously disparaged as"service industry" liberal arts, which he believes will soon "bloodily wash" the computer field, jumping to become the "T0" version of AI.
However, while STEM students were bluffing and liberal arts students were celebrating, players in the gaming community frowned, sensing something was wrong. It turns out, everyone knows there is a kind of so-calledthe causal law weapon of "jinxing," once activated, it causes death or injury; the more certain the blessing, the more likely it is to bring misfortune.
Soon, on the English subreddit"Reddit" saw a leak. The poster claimed to be an employee of Warhorse Studios, mainly responsible for translating the game Kingdom Come: Deliverance:Save2's dialogues, logs, item names, etc., from Czech to English. Obviously, the poster not only fits the definition of a liberal arts student but is also the "English major" graduate Old Huang favors most. However, the leak revealed that he was unexpectedlycalled into the office, where his supervisor told him: "To improve work efficiency, you don't need to come next month, because all your work will be translated by AI in the future."
Below, there were similarly recently laid-offEpic employees, comforting them: "At least the boss is direct, unlike their boss, spouting somehuman resource recyclingnonsense". Some also shared their industry experiences, noting that not only translation but also jobs in other industries are being replaced by AI. Of course, more players flocked to the Steam comments section of Kingdom Come: Deliverance:Save2's Steam review section: recent negative English reviews almost all stem from protests against Warhorse Studios' use of AI.
Reality is right in front of us, Old Huang's"Liberal Arts Future Theory" seems to have become marketing rhetoric. But thinking carefully, there is another possibility, in that translation work is too instrumental, and Old Huang's meaning is that AI needs the creativity of liberal arts students.
Old Huang believes that human language will replaceJava,C++,programming languages like Python. Therefore, liberal arts students have an advantage in language expression, and 360ofChairman Zhou Hongyi also expressed a similar view recently: when programming isreplaced by AI, what people will need in the future are management skills, command abilities, and expression skills.
Coincidentally, there have been two hot topics in the tech circle recently.
First, several major companies releasedpositions like AI Narrative Designers, with starting monthly salaries of 30,000, recruitment requirements don't need hardcore programming skills, but prioritize Chinese, philosophy, communication, and sociology backgrounds.seemingly provesthe demand for liberal arts students in the AI industry.
Second, there's a liberal arts student"Yang Tianrun", he hasn't written a single line of code,name yet made it onto the list of outstanding contributors to the phenomenal open-source project Lobster (OpenClaw) list of outstanding contributors.seemingly proves the feasibility of liberal arts replacing STEM.
This Brother Yang came from financial investment banking. During his investments, he saw too many good ideas fail due to technical reasons. Therefore, he wanted to try usingAI, to see if AI could help ordinary people flatten the technical barrier.
Surrounded by Silicon Valley veterans with ten years of coding experience, he was a layman who hadn't written a single line of code. In response, Brother Yang's strategywas to form a virtual staff. The three core chiefs of staff were namedEcho, Henry, and Elon, respectively responsible for program architecture design, community operations, and technical execution.Under each chief of staff, another batch was set upAI, just like the hierarchical structure of a real company,built a silicon-based army.
Unlike traditional programmers, Brother Yang would giveAI character bios. He required each AI to treat itself as a real person, believing this could unleash AI's creativity: provide requirements, not scripts, let Everythinggj run naturally, like Wong Kar-wai making films.
Ultimately, under this large-scale role-playing gameplay, Brother Yang successfully completed the project. He submitted toOpenClaw submitted a total of 134 PRs(a type of code), 21 were merged by maintainers. Brother Yang successfully made it onto the contributor list, which later caused a stir among domestic tech enthusiasts.
example is right in front of us, liberal arts students have great potential.
But compared to what the news reported, the news itself probably better reflects the level of liberal arts students.
The report introducing Brother Yang was titled "Liberal Arts StudentEnters GitHub Global Top 72 Hours: I Didn't Write a Line of Code, But Commanded an AI Army". Although there were no factual errors in the content, showing it to guys who understand code, the only comment they could make was about the charm of journalism.
OpenClaw isopen-source projects, we can crudely compare them to a painting created collectively. Brother Yang submittedPR is equivalent to him submitting a request to add two brushstrokes, while the original author decides whether to keep them. So, saying Brother Yang's 21 PRs were contributions is correct, but the remaining 113 rejected PRs are the key issue.
Let's put it this way,Maintainers of open-source projects are mostly driven by interest, and those bad codes are equivalent to dumping garbage on those volunteers' heads. We can simply calculate,21divided by 134 submissions gives a pass rate of 15.6%.So please imagine, if a chef's dishes are only15.6% usability means only 15.6% of an employee's submitted proposals are usable...If you were the boss, would you want to deal with such low-performing employees?
similar"AI Narrative Designer" news,also has an element of exaggeration, so-called"monthly salarystarting at 30,000" was searched across the entire internet, allcouldn't find a single person who fully met the news criteria"pit." I did find a "Large Model AI Personality Designer" position with a monthly salary of 50,000, but it also requires both liberal arts and technical skills, needing not only liberal arts literacy but also an interest in technology.
Butrelaxing the conditions doesn't mean that news report was completely fabricated.The demand for liberal arts in the AI market can be roughly divided into three categories. The first is AI Narrative Architects, responsible for calibrating the model's value orientation, avoiding ethical risks, with broad authority and high salaries. But recruiters are looking for media experts,professional scholars, not to mention the limited number, and also has nothing to do with the so-called"liberal arts graduates"had nothing to do with it.
The second category is AI Trainers, whose job is to train AI to bemore human-like, but in reality, it's just givingAI consumables, waiting for the AI apprentice to graduateafterwards, the master will starve.
The third category is even more absurd, calledAI content operations are essentially about taking us humanseditorhave achieved cyber ascension. Because, oneIf an AI content operator can manage more than three AI editors, then the original three humaneditors can be kicked out.
In an interview with The Guardian in the UKIn a February article, a 55-year-old senior media professional was invited to conduct "new employee career training." However, the low quality of the new hires drove her crazy,Not only was punctuation misused, but common sense errors were baffling. A few months later, the company confirmed what she had long harbored in her heartguess, it turned out none of the apprentices she trained were human, but nowAI has already graduated, so she either chooses to resign or accepts a pay cut.
InUnder the post "Warhorse Studios Translator," some also expressed similar situations. Those translators, although they haven't received "termination letters" yet, have been forcibly required by their superiors to use AI. Therefore,When asked about their job content, their answer was only four words"digging their own grave." To the point that theyto this daycan't say clearly whether they should beAI stupidity causingthemselvesgoing crazy from overtime, or should they beanxious about AI becoming smarter.
In other words, at least for now, the demand for liberal arts students in so-called tech companies is like Dr. Gero's demand for martial artists in Dragon Ball.They favor martial artists,reuse martial artists, but the ultimate goal is to let Cell eat the martial artists, helping Cell become the Ultimate Lifeform.
So looking back, at least in the current job market, humanities students are not as optimistic as hyped in the news. Especially as a game media editor under the humanities category, seeingAI is sweating even more, trembling with fear.
Because not long ago, a male colleague overseas came forward to reveal that his job had beenAI editor replacement. Even,ThatAI was also responsible for "Resident EvilRequiem" game review work, and its score was even once used by media outlets asVideoGamer's scores were included in the authoritative rating website Metacritic.
According to the site's introduction, Brian has rich industry knowledge and, as a veteran player, is passionate about open-world andFPS games. But in fact, these introductions are nonsense; Brian is not human at all. Whether it's in "Resident Evil Requiem" review title claimsThis generation is the series'"final ending," or the review stating that this game is Leon's "last dance," these are all confirmed factual errors.
So much so that I racked my brain and couldn't figure outWhich chip does AI actually rely on?, to experience the fun of games? Unfortunately,thisAI hasn't written reviews for adult games—Otherwise, I could at least write aThis book is called "Will Machine Otakus ElectronicallyBoki?".
According toCopilot reports that this gaming media outlet called VideoGamer,was acquired by a new company earlier this year. This new company laid off most of the game editors, leaving only a streamlinedAI team, with a future strategy to convert website trafficintroducing "sports betting" and cryptocurrencies.
At the end of the report, the article emphasizedThe potential risks of AI garbage content to the gaming industry.But absurdly, the company that acquired VideoGamer is Copilot itself.In other words, this criticismThe AI-generated garbage article was also written by AI; it comes from silicon-based life's self-reflection.
In summary, we can confirm that not only instrumental jobs, but creative jobs are also beingAI replacement. Perhaps humans currently perform more precisely, excellently, and persuasively in humanities jobs. But AI's advantage has always been its low cost, which means that entry-level humanities positions will face disruption for a long time to come.
Old Huang might be right; humanities students in the future could be likeLike "Yang Tianrun," relying on keen market sense, precise expression, and efficient command to lead an AI army and compete with STEM programmers.
But the so-calledAI saves humanities studentsatamidst suffering...Just don't ask where the suffering comes fromwill do.
AndWhy should humanities students now believe that theCan AI change the meta?
References:
1.Geek Park: Humanities studentsBreaks into GitHub global rankings in 72 hours: I didn't write a single line of code, but commanded an AI army
2.Zhihu:How to evaluate the article"Humanities student breaks into GitHub global rankings in 72 hours?
3.Reddit:I was originally going to VideoGamer reviews "Resident Evil Requiem", but was AI replaced
4.The Guardian: Employees are training AI to replace themselves