"The weirdest trend was all of the people who had done large AI projects on things that didn’t need AI at all. We had people bragging about spending a year or m

"The weirdest trend was all of the people who had done large AI projects on things that didn’t need AI at all. We had people bragging about spending a year or more trying to get an AI model to do simple tasks that were easily solved deterministically with simple math, for example. There was a lot of AI-ification for the sake of using AI." I've seen two variants of this 1) People that have worked for traditional (as in non-tech) companies, where there's been a huge push for digitalization and "AI". These things come from the very top, and you don't really have much say. I've been there myself. The upper echelon wants "AI" so that they can tick off boxes to the board of directors. With these folks, its all about managing expectations - but frankly, they don't care if you implement a simple regression model, or spend a fortune on overkill models. The most important part is that you've brought "AI" to the company. 2) The people that want to pad their resumes. There's no need, no push, but no-one is stopping you. You can add "designed and implemented AI products to the business operation blablabla" to your CV. These days, I've seen and experienced 1) an awful lot. It's all about keeping up with the joneses.