Dear Prof Ben Leong / Masters of ICT, CS :
1) What should us / today's children be learning, as non CS students to prepare ourselves with the trend of AI, Machine Learning etc. ?
2) If to take up CS skills/ courses by ourselves via online route, what kind of skills do we need? Any courses to recommend?
Thank you for the answer.
Prof Ben
"1) What should us / today's children be learning, as non CS students to prepare ourselves with the trend of AI, Machine Learning etc. ?"
Focus on mastering a craft. AI isn't really smart and probably won't be smart for a v long time. Computers can only do well-defined tasks involving large amounts of data better than humans.
It will take a long time before AI can fry a mean kway teow or teach better than a human, if ever at all.
in other words, dun have to worry too much on AI. Just find something you like and become damn good at it.
"2) If to take up CS skills/ courses by ourselves via online route, what kind of skills do we need? Any courses to recommend?"
Most people won't ever be needed to write code. Just make sure you know how to use Excel really well and you should be able to do quite a lot already.
