Useless Degrees, Coding Jobs, the IIT Race and Engineering in the AI Era | Top EdTech Founder

About this episode

In this episode, Prakhar Gupta interviews Piyush Nangru about the challenges and opportunities in education and careers in the AI era.

Welcome to PGX: Raw & Real #186PGX: Raw & Real is simple. I sit with people who’ve lived through something and/or made it big.This isn’t meant to be inspiration or a template for life (for that, you can check out PGX Ideas).This space is different. It’s their story, as they experienced it.In this episode, I spoke to Piyush Nangru — Founder of Vedam School of Technology. Timestamps:00:00 - Intro03:38 - What do students fear in AI age?07:03 - Is your expensive college worth it09:07 - Are Students learning wrong things?13:42 - Marks are misleading you16:36 - What is broken in Indian education18:00 - Gap between classroom and real world25:09 - New age vs old school students29:55 - Biggest opportunities in AI era?31:31 - If AI does everything what's left33:33 - Which skills are now useless36:13 - How AI will impact teachers38:37 - What can AI never replace40:16 - Self learning with AI43:57 - Should you risk everything for education49:29 - IIT student vs self taught who wins50:53 - Advice for Indian parents57:00 - Why students need builder mindset59:05 - AI jobs are already here01:01:20 - Final advice for studentsEnjoy.— Prakhar

People in this episode

Host: Prakhar Gupta

Guest: Piyush Nangru

Topics covered

• education
• AI
• coding jobs
• IIT
• engineering
• student mindset

Keywords

• useless degrees
• coding jobs
• IIT race
• engineering
• AI impact
• Indian education
• self learning

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Vedam School of Technology

Places: India

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