talk about STEAM, where they put the A in for Arts because all of the arts and social sciences need to be brought together with the STEM disciplines to give a holistic view. That’s probably something worthwhile for business and industry to start to think about: how do you bring it to be a more human thing in the technology space? How do you bring the “A” into your STEM world? It’s not a rounded product unless we’ve brought all those elements together.
benefits.” Obviously, you’ve got AI, but what’s special about yours and how is it keeping stuff safe? We’re all in the hype cycle. But I genuinely think that AI as a separate product is going to disappear because it’ll just be part of the fabric of a product. With an AI, when you’re talking to an interface, the quality of the prompt engineering will determine the quality of the outputs, which is human imagination. Art will still exist. People will still be creative.
In higher education, where I work, people talk about STEM—Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. But a lot of people
Kate Carruthers Chief Data & Insights Officer, UNSW Planning & Performance UNSW Sydney
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