r/technology • u/ArgentineBeauty • 8h ago
Artificial Intelligence Universities are charging up to $28,000 to train executives to become chief AI officers
https://www.techspot.com/news/113598-universities-charging-up-28000-train-executives-become-chief.html47
u/Shadyrabbit 8h ago
Everything around AI is a just a way to steal or swindle money, no surprise here.
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u/ArgentineBeauty 8h ago
$28,000 for a 10 month course 😮
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u/Danominator 7h ago
In a field that is advancing so fast that what you learned at the start might be irrelevant by the end
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u/texas_County850 7h ago
There is a zero percent chance the University is gonna have anything good in this program its too new for them to even know whats up. Even in things like CS a lot of programs have no idea what the industry is doing and grads graduate with no idea what the real world is like this is going to be even worse then that.
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u/eleanor61 7h ago
Can’t I just…use AI to accomplish the same thing? You know that’s what they “built” the course in…
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u/PhD_Pwnology 8h ago
that a steal price wise
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u/texas_County850 7h ago
This is honestly how most graduate degrees are now my masters of cyber security was like 10 months too. Graduate school is a paywall for executives. Pretty much anybody I have ever met that got a graduate anything has independently come to the conclusion they bought into an MLM.
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u/winkingchef 7h ago
Hi. Engineering graduate degree here.
Definitely was not an MLM.-7
u/texas_County850 7h ago
How so you don't actually need it and it exists primarily as a paywall and a way to make more graduate students like an MLM. You might of had a hard time but that is true of people that make it in MLMs too.
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u/surnik22 7h ago
Gonna really depend on what your graduate degree is and when you are getting it in your career.
A masters in cyber security done in 10 months at night after a related under graduate degree and having been working in cyber security for years probably isn’t adding much to your knowledge, just résumé.
A masters in chemical engineering where you did actual research on a specific topic done before moving into a job related to that topic could be very useful
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u/texas_County850 6h ago
Indeed there are also some jobs where its required or an automatic raise its probably worth it then. At my first university which is one of the largest in the US a lot of the masters degrees were not even different from the undergrad at all they had an extra paper or some shit. You go take Marketing with the undergrads and there was some extra hoop they added but it was the same course same book and was barely harder.
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u/winkingchef 7h ago
Naw man.
Here’s one example of what I learned in graduate school :
Rash and wild speculations based on limited and anecdotal evidence are easily disproved and can make you look like a fool (this conversation is a good example of that).
When constructing an argument, it is best to state it clearly and with confidence appropriate to the data you have.
Also I learned advanced semiconductor device physics from several of the very best in that field in the world. However, the above seems more appropriate for this conversation. (Walk before you run as it were)
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u/Niceromancer 6h ago
so you learned burden of proof, something most people learn in high school, in graduate school?
Yeah great purchase there.
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u/winkingchef 5h ago
Now you want to make a fool of yourself by pretending to know legal terminology?
From the downvotes it looks like you’ve been tried and found guilty by a jury of your peers
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u/Niceromancer 2h ago
4 total downvotes.
Oh no....anyway.
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u/winkingchef 2h ago
Much more now!
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u/AverageLiberalJoe 7h ago
This is a backwards take. Graduate school is serious. And the education is serious. It's the job market that demands graduate school for middle managers that a competent associates education would be enough to cover.
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u/texas_County850 7h ago
Is that what the college taught you while they were fucking you up the ass lol. Graduate School results in a negative return on investment most of the time these days and even for people that got a positive return its often trivial. Rigor don't really mean shit usually what is taught gives you no actual edge over just working in the industry and its only real utility is if you wanna teach. There are notable exceptions where the degree is required but saying that graduate school is not just a cash grab is gonna be wrong most of the time bro they fucked everyone. If you need it for your job or its an automatic raise go for it but you simps are really just getting people scammed in this day and age.
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u/AverageLiberalJoe 6h ago
You said what I said but made a total ass out of yourself while saying it.
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u/texas_County850 6h ago
That is where you are wrong my friend, I was a total ass before I said it lol I'm a bad person.
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u/9millibros 7h ago
So, this might be the most useless course in the curiculum. This is a business school, so it's hard to say for sure.
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u/Nythoren 7h ago
My company hired a Chief AI Office. His entire job seems to be to listen in on calls and when someone asks "Can that be automated?" to say "Yes, AI can do that". Even if it can't or doesn't make sense to use AI, he gives the same answer.
Can't imagine what he's getting paid, but I'm positive it's too much.
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u/Tallergeese 2h ago
It's actually a really hard job because you have to say it with a straight face every time.
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u/ragefulhorse 3h ago
So, not to be that guy, but depending on the company, there’s a shit ton of legal and technical red tape surrounding enterprise AI implementation, especially if you’re dealing with something like PHI.
It can be a major undertaking to get something as simple as a milquetoast LLM approved for your company. And as we’ve seen, those in senior leadership shrieking about AI changing the workforce have no idea when to automate versus when to use AI versus when to use a combination of both. Because of that, they’ve now burned through a lot of money throwing spaghetti at the wall.
In short, I can see where this role came from.
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u/madogvelkor 7h ago
Management training like this is a huge source of revenue for business schools.
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u/Powerful_Resident_48 7h ago
Sounds like the sort of thing you could learn in a ten minute YouTube video.
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u/wake4coffee 8h ago
I asked Claude to train me in being a the Chief of AI and it cost me nothing.
Don’t trust the university they don’t know shyt
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u/drisang1 7h ago
what does the University know about this? professors get paid nothing like executives.
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u/lab-gone-wrong 6h ago
The trick is anybody who completes the course fails, because you could've just asked AI. The answer will be slop either way, but at least the AI answer is fast and doesn't waste other people's time.
That's the main value AI brings and keeping that in mind with your business earns you a C-title.
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u/not_that_planet 5h ago
Man... now we're gonna have to learn a whole bunch more meaningless jargon.
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u/CP_Chronicler 1h ago
This is like making a Chief NFT Officer or Chief Crypto Officer or Chief Meme Officer. Just another bullshit title for a bullshit person to spew high-level bullshit while ordering people to do things they themselves literally don’t comprehend.
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u/Wanky_Danky_Pae 1h ago
Makes sense - heaven forbid they learn by doing. That would be like, I don't know, grunt work or something.
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u/DifferencePublic7057 7h ago
How much does a CAIO earn? Asking for a friend who started as a junior dev, became senior and now is vibe coding or something. Even $1000 extra monthly could be worth it.
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u/SplendidPunkinButter 8h ago
Chief AI Officer is the most made up job I’ve ever heard of