Tech Tuesday: Battelle study says employers are placing more value on critical thinking, adaptability

All right.

So before we get to the study you released, I want you to tell me how you think artificial intelligence is changing what it means to be prepared for workforce today.

You know, the study aside, what do you think? Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and we're dealing with this every day.

I'll be honest.

We were doing things at Bell Labs in the 1980s that were looking at neural networks that were early versions of AI.

But as we hit generative AI in the last couple of years, and now we're getting to super intelligence and all these things.

It's really a massive change.

Think of it this way.

Every kid's going to have a PhD in every subject on their phone.

So what do

we teach for? We need to teach for different things.

And as a result, we need to adapt how we're teaching.

it's not yeah i mean it's more so than just like googling something in ai mode i mean there's so much more to it than that but the way most of us use it right now is doing something like that just asking a question right

but that's changing very quickly though yeah um i think the real benefit of this and just like when we wired the internet up you know we had the telecom boom and bust but the society benefited so much from that technology being available and making it cheaper to send data back and forth that we invented whole new industries and we uh really drove our industry for the last 20 years and i think ai has the potential to do that for the next 20 years

so battelle recently released its first applied workforce outlook this is a national study of more than 3 600 employers educators students parents and opinion leaders the study looks at how artificial intelligence is changing workforce expectations and whether today's education system is preparing students for all those changes.

So Patel is using this term applied workforce.

I want to start with that.

What is that?

So what it really means is how are we going to use these new tools and how are we going to prepare? And let me maybe take a step back and talk a little bit about what Patel's done in education and why this is a natural thing for us to do.

Yeah.

So Gordon Patel founded the company 97 years ago.

And it really, if you paraphrase his will, it basically said, advance science and technology for the betterment of humanity and develop education to help next generations be able to be capable to continue that process.

No pressure.

All right.

So before we get to the study you released, I want you to tell me how you think artificial intelligence is changing what it means to be prepared for workforce today.

You know, the study aside, what do you think? Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, and we're dealing with this every day.

I'll be honest.

We were doing things at Bell Labs in the 1980s that were looking at neural networks that were early versions of AI.

But as we hit generative AI in the last couple of years, and now we're getting to super intelligence and all these things.

It's really a massive change.

Think of it this way.

Every kid's going to have a PhD in every subject on their phone.

So what do

we teach for? We need to teach for different things.

And as a result, we need to adapt how we're teaching.

it's not yeah i mean it's more so than just like googling something in ai mode i mean there's so much more to it than that but the way most of us use it right now is doing something like that just asking a question right

but that's changing very quickly though yeah um i think the real benefit of this and just like when we wired the internet up you know we had the telecom boom and bust but the society benefited so much from that technology being available and making it cheaper to send data back and forth that we invented whole new industries and we uh really drove our industry for the last 20 years and i think ai has the potential to do that for the next 20 years

so battelle recently released its first applied workforce outlook this is a national study of more than 3 600 employers educators students parents and opinion leaders the study looks at how artificial intelligence is changing workforce expectations and whether today's education system is preparing students for all those changes.

So Patel is using this term applied workforce.

I want to start with that.

What is that?

So what it really means is how are we going to use these new tools and how are we going to prepare? And let me maybe take a step back and talk a little bit about what Patel's done in education and why this is a natural thing for us to do.

Yeah.

So Gordon Patel founded the company 97 years ago.

And it really, if you paraphrase his will, it basically said, advance science and technology for the betterment of humanity and develop education to help next generations be able to be capable to continue that process.

No pressure.