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>AI/ML already has real applications with hundreds of millions of dollars actual value created. Hundreds of billions a year probably (and that may be low) if y
by marcinzm 4y ago
>AI/ML already has real applications with hundreds of millions of dollars actual value created.
Hundreds of billions a year probably (and that may be low) if you count online advertising and large consumer facing sites in general. If you turned off the ML behind Facebook/Google/Netflix/Amazon then you'd be lucky to only lose 50% revenue based on my personal experience of adding ML on top of such products.
- rg111 4y agoThat is true. ML in recsys of Netflix and product suggestion/placement in Amazon are worth tens of billions of dollar alone, per month.
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- michaelteter 4y agoThat's a handful of companies. I'm not talking about them (and they also use many other languages in addition to Python). I said, "there are so many more jobs for another popular language", and I was clearly speaking of the broad job market... not a few big players.
- marcinzm 4y ago>I said, "there are so many more jobs for another popular language", and I was clearly speaking of the broad job market... not a few big players. Most every large company uses AI/ML to actually drive revenue and the number of engineers they'll hire dwarfs all the small startups put together. To you question however looking at the latest recruitment thread on HN there's roughly twice as much Python as Ruby. About 30% of the Python work is Data/ML related at first glance. So 40% more companies are hiring for Python versus Ruby pure backend right now. I'm not sure how a 40% difference is such a catastrophic difference. Python is popular because most every large company uses it nowadays and not because a bunch of non-name startups are using it slightly more often than Ruby.