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Do you think cybersecurity or ai is a better field to dive deeper into as a career/business field? I feel like in some ways ai has already been hyped up but cyb

Do you think cybersecurity or ai is a better field to dive deeper into as a career/business field? I feel like in some ways ai has already been hyped up but cybersecurity tends to be quite niche in its demands?

krapht 7y ago
Every company with valuable data is interested in computer security. I have never seen a shortage of positions for qualified candidates. AI has way too much hype behind it. Deep learning is not the best solution for most business data problems.
Godel_unicode 7y ago
Why only pick one?
- danaur 7y ago
  Because one has limited time
  - gkilmain 7y ago
    But shouldn't you at least try both? They seem to me to be two very different things.
    - Thorrez 7y ago
      ackbar03 didn't seem to be asking about what to try, but about what to dedicate a career to.
    - ackbar03 7y ago
      I've already been dabbling in both but if Im to either start a business or pursue a career in a single field I feel it's probably going to require more more dedication to one thing, but thanks for the response
dogma1138 7y ago
Cyber security has a much lower bar of entry, AI requires much more technical and theoretical knowledge to tackle. Cyber Security can be anything form a SOC analyst who looks at system logs and monitoring systems to a cryptographer. For the most part Cyber Security is as varied as IT itself. AI on the other hand would require a very specific set of skills and theoretical knowledge and a very good grasp of mathematics the latter is where most people fail even if they know the maths without being a mathematician at heart and being able to use it essentially as a language you likely won’t get too far even with all of the abstractions deep learning frameworks provide. This isn’t just because of the mathematical nature of deep learning but also because the applications themselves are also mathematically complex e.g. computer vision. This is basically the equivalent of asking what should you do website development or signal processing as a developer these aren’t exactly on the same level.

krapht 7y ago

Every company with valuable data is interested in computer security. I have never seen a shortage of positions for qualified candidates. AI has way too much hype behind it. Deep learning is not the best solution for most business data problems.

Godel_unicode 7y ago

Why only pick one?

danaur 7y ago
Because one has limited time
- gkilmain 7y ago
  But shouldn't you at least try both? They seem to me to be two very different things.
  - Thorrez 7y ago
    ackbar03 didn't seem to be asking about what to try, but about what to dedicate a career to.
  - ackbar03 7y ago
    I've already been dabbling in both but if Im to either start a business or pursue a career in a single field I feel it's probably going to require more more dedication to one thing, but thanks for the response

dogma1138 7y ago

Cyber security has a much lower bar of entry, AI requires much more technical and theoretical knowledge to tackle. Cyber Security can be anything form a SOC analyst who looks at system logs and monitoring systems to a cryptographer. For the most part Cyber Security is as varied as IT itself. AI on the other hand would require a very specific set of skills and theoretical knowledge and a very good grasp of mathematics the latter is where most people fail even if they know the maths without being a mathematician at heart and being able to use it essentially as a language you likely won’t get too far even with all of the abstractions deep learning frameworks provide. This isn’t just because of the mathematical nature of deep learning but also because the applications themselves are also mathematically complex e.g. computer vision. This is basically the equivalent of asking what should you do website development or signal processing as a developer these aren’t exactly on the same level.