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It's not as difficult to break into AI/ML as you think. Personally, I think a motivated, experience developer who sits down and learns the math, which is all un
by spamizbad 3y ago
It's not as difficult to break into AI/ML as you think. Personally, I think a motivated, experience developer who sits down and learns the math, which is all undergraduate level, can skill-up and enter this field. It's very reminiscent of what took place with data science, where you had "weak" developers who were strong with math build models and then orgs would lean on professional software engineers to clean up and scale their work.
- zooq_ai 3y agoEntering the field is not the same as claiming "I can model the entire universe and it's economic system and predict the "net benefit to humanity for the next 100 years" of this one decision which exactly what AI ethicists are doing and which mainstream media is elevating this people to be capable of
- spamizbad 3y agoBut this is how almost every thought-leader in technology operates in our industry - and many others. In fact, there's numerous technology luminaries who aren't even engineers. I see no reason why AI gets to be special.