What Computer Skills Do We Need for our Future?
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What Computer Skills Do We Need for our Future?

B1IntermediateOctober 6, 202615 min
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Philip Clark is joined by Peter Marks, software developer and technology commentator from Access Informatics, with a look at what skills we will now need into the future with computing.

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Apple's now joined Microsoft and Google in building AI directly into their

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ABC Listen, podcasts, radio, news, music and more. Nightlife tag, nightlife tag. The way we use computers is starting to change and quite dramatically. For years, most of us have built our skills, such as they are around particular programs,

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Microsoft Office, databases, Photoshop and so on. But AI is changing all of that. Apple's now joined Microsoft and Google in building AI directly into their operating systems, meaning that our computers can increasingly understand

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what we want to help us to do it and in some cases actually do the work for us. So the skills we put on our CVs may be changing too, instead of simply asking someone whether someone knows a particular program, which was a common question in the past, employers may increasingly want to know how well you

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