Universities in the AI age are still important

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THE Internet has long been a reservoir of knowledge in our lives. And now, with artificial intelligence (AI), finding information is not only easier but we can have it aggregated, organised, and presented to us in ways that make learning easier. So much so that questions surrounding the necessity of a university degree have been getting louder.

While it is indeed true that information is more accessible today than it has ever been, there appears to be a miscon-ception that accessing infor-mation is the same as getting an education. It is not.