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What is the big job market for AI/ML? I see some Kaggle competitions, and a few high wage jobs working for the big tech companies, but it still seems pretty ni
by yters 8y ago
What is the big job market for AI/ML? I see some Kaggle competitions, and a few high wage jobs working for the big tech companies, but it still seems pretty niche.
Makes sense from a theoretical viewpoint, b/c all AI/ML models are not Turing complete in order to be optimizable, whereas your average programmer easily churns out "models" in a Turing complete language. So, joe blow programmer is universally more powerful than any AI/ML algorithm. He can program an AI in his TC language, but AI cannot replicate his work in a non TC language.
- ben_w 8y agoOnce an AI gets that good, good enough to reproduce even a junior developer, nobody can ever get paid to work again. Before that point, it’s still useful to know the basics of AI in the same way knowing about arrays or higher order functions is useful.
- yters 8y agoDo you know of a Turing complete AI/ML model?
- solomatov 8y ago- Neural turing machines: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401 https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401 - Universal transformers: https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819 https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.03819 These are just 2 of most well known.
- currymj 8y agomany of them are Turing-complete almost by accident, if you are willing to add enough parameters. E.g. a shallow neural network with one layer is Turing-complete. It's actually Turing-complete for rational-valued weights (countable). If you are willing to grant real valued weights (uncountable) then it is actually more powerful than a Turing machine, able to compute things in P/poly, a very weird complexity class that includes some encodings of the halting problem. But this is just because you're "cheating" by allowing infinite precision which is not possible in the real world.
- Ftuuky 8y agoThe bank where I work needs so many data scientists and AI/ML/DL engineers and they can't find enough of them to the point they're paying master degrees and MOOCs to all employees that want to study it, as long as they already have some experience with Python/R or a background in math/stats/engineering.
- leesec 8y agoCough. What company is this? I was looking into getting my Masters but would be much nicer if somebody was paying for it.
- Ftuuky 8y agoOne of the top 20 investment banks.
- throwawaymath 8y agoI know you probably mean well and maybe want to stay anonymous, but it seems pretty clear to me that commenter was looking for a specific firm in response to their question. Is it the case that all of the top 20 IBs are offering tuition reimbursement for data science?
- Ftuuky 8y agoI understand the commenter wanted a clear answer but I don't know if I should be specific since I can't find a public source to go along. Maybe this is internal and I fd up?