I think that there are a pretty large number of companies that put out "data exhaust" as you put it that could increase their efficiency by 5% or so, sure. Not

I think that there are a pretty large number of companies that put out "data exhaust" as you put it that could increase their efficiency by 5% or so, sure. Not every company, but some. It's very unclear to me that there are a large number of companies that can increase their efficiency by much more than 5% through ML. And it's not clear to me that there is more than a couple-year's-worth of projects in turning data exhaust into money for each company. So if I were a new grad looking to get into ML, that might somewhat concern me.