> So what are these companies doing? Uh, well, what are the use cases for AI / ML? That's what they're doing. They're using it all over the place. It's almost

> So what are these companies doing? Uh, well, what are the use cases for AI / ML? That's what they're doing. They're using it all over the place. It's almost unheard of to find a small tech company not at least exploring ML to see if they can use it to gain an edge. Why do they have to detail what they're doing so they're not automatically bucketed into the "doing linear regression in excel" camp? > Engineers and researchers, yes. Who builds the products the end users love? Engineers and researchers. Funny, these same practices at Apple for the past 40 years haven't turned engineers and researchers off from working there. It isn't turning them off now, either. Apple has never had to give away time and knowledge for free to attract talent. In fact most companies don't need to do this. Relatively speaking only a few companies do this. Seems a bit entitled, in my opinion, to think technology companies have to give away their time and expertise. They're going to attract talent if they're interesting / create interesting things as a company.