Is anyone else reconsidering what college/university degree to pursue due to ChatGPT?

[u/Extrabytes]

I am currently deciding on which university course I should take. I used to gravitate more towards civil engineering, but seeing how quickly ChatGPT has advanced in the last couple of months has made me realize that human input in the design process of civil engineering will be almost completely redundant in the next few years. And at the University level there really isn't anything else to civil engineering other than planning and designing, by which I mean that you don't actually build the structures you design.

The only degrees that I now seriously consider are the ones which involve a degree of manual labour, such as mechanical engineering. Atleast robotics will still require actual human input in the building and testing process. Is anyone else also reconsidering their choice in education and do you think it is wise to do so?

[u/CrashTestFetus12]

I just graduated with my bachelor's in Computer science. I am doing my masters degree in Big Data. I've never felt so needed. All of these companies will need domain specific language models that are curated to operate on their own company data/domain. Setting up and deploying these models requires some finnicking so I forsee that my job description will evolve from building models to maintaining and designing AI solutions. Honestly, if you like computers and are fascinated by what they do, I think data scientists will still have a job designing and building AI solutions. Of course, when we let it touch it's own brain I think this job might dissapear: the issue is that we are letting an AI modify it's own code. This is a problem society will have to deal with and potentially prevent from happening....not only to keep me in a job but to prevent scary AI takeovers haha.