Most Aspirants Are Thinking About AI Completely Wrong | 2IIM

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:04]Okay. So my question broadly and I'll qualify it as well. Um impact of AI and education and I'll tell you where I'm coming from. I've read these Reddit posts where they say that graduate degrees are going to be obsolete or they're saying that people should work along with graduate degrees. Um there's a school of thought which says arts is more important now because it's about soft skills something AI cannot do and hard skills are kind of out of fashion.

[00:00:27]What is your view on it? How is education going to change?

[00:00:30]>> Um, education going to change pretty dramatically. I'm with it, but I think I I I don't think arts are going to fly and and take off. Um, I don't think AI is going to substitute everything. You know, a bunch of AI skills, you're going to rule. I think um intellectual depth.

[00:00:49]I think uh complete handling and expertise in a domain, >> those things will count for more and more. I would argue that if you look at like like a bell curve of of graduates or >> not not even a bell curve if you arranged graduates in each stream by percentile >> where they where they rank I think whatever you pick whether you want to be a dermatologist or you want to be a product reviewer or anything >> I think if you're the top 5% 10% in your field you'll you will you'll learn you'll be the expert and you'll get bigger payoffs if the bottom half of your field you're in trouble >> I think all education ation one is teaches you a bunch of skill set >> two it sends a signal I think in AI the value of a the skill set thing will reduce especially in specific segments >> right >> especially if it's not cutting edge >> so if I'm an absolute do in coding I'll survive >> if I'm the go-to doctor who understands multiple variables I'll survive but as a regular guy holding out standard stuff in tech or medicine or coding or education or whatever and the median guy and median below is going to struggle right so uh what the the the elite colleges did your Howards and London schools of economics and all of them the IT and IM in India not just a skill set they said you'll be in a peer group and it you're jumping through hoops to come here therefore I'm vouching for the quality of this intellect >> right >> and I think that intellect the the the the identification that this is someone who can understand in depth and be in the top 5% 10% in the field that is going to still be there.

[00:02:34]>> Okay.

[00:02:34]>> And if anything the value of that will increase >> right >> so in many way many many ways I think the top 5% in every field >> Mhm.

[00:02:43]>> uh is going to have a chance to run away from the rest a little bit more.

[00:02:48]>> Right.

[00:02:49]And which is why I think if anyone wants to survive in the AI world, I think folks are thinking, look, I I'll learn how to prompt.

[00:02:56]>> That's not going to help.

[00:02:58]>> Yeah.

[00:02:58]>> How to use AI to do regular coding.

[00:03:00]That's not going to help.

[00:03:02]>> Uh all of that is going to increasingly get taken up by AI, >> right?

[00:03:06]>> I think the real difference will come if you're the guy who says, "Look, hey, I've done this stuff. You give it to me for 10 minutes. I'll see if it makes sense."

[00:03:13]>> Right. Right. which is going to be a super important skill set at least for the next 15 years >> before AI takes that away.

[00:03:22]>> I think being super elite and having absolute expertise in some niche and promising an extraordinarily powerful processor >> these are the things that are going to get you an entry job and then build further on. So I I think median below in anything >> right jack of all trades I can do coding also you're cooked >> you're cooked if you're saying look I'll learn how to do Python and code there's no such job now >> increasingly every regular job >> right >> I know how I'm learning how to prompt if you have to learn how to prompt you're behind >> so there's nothing there's nothing prompt you you have to be in a group of people who says look oh this I have prompted with chat GPT how different can cloud be I can get to it in 24 hours >> and we all have interacted with those guys. You all interacted with those folks whom you know look this guy knows jack about claude that guy has been working with claude for 3 weeks you tell him in claude in about 4 hours he'll overtake that guy you need to be that person who has the command over and ability to process or expertise in a niche those things will pay off. Okay, great. Thank you.