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I’m a consultant / data scientist for a big management consulting firm. What the hell is a big AI consultancy? As far as I can tell, these do not exist. Why wo

• whimsicalism 5y ago
  Probably one of those companies trying to sell SMBs a "data platform." ie. like C3.ai ... It seems snake oil adjacent to me, at least at this point.
• version_five 5y ago
  That caught my attention too. I work on AI consulting and have a reasonable sense of the ecosystem. There are certainly big players that claim "AI" as part of their consulting business, e.g. Deloitte, but they are well removed from any of the research and really just selling dashboards or something with a new name. The GP comments is the kind of thing I would expect a consultant working at a place like that to come out with