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The barriers to AI engineering are crumbling fast

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250 points lewq | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 14:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.248s | source
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JSDevOps ◴[14 Nov 24 15:05 UTC] No.42136819[source]▶
Is anyone instantly suspicious when they introduce themselves these days an "AI Developer"
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wrs ◴[14 Nov 24 16:39 UTC] No.42137950[source]▶
I’m instantly suspicious when anyone uses the term “AI”.
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ocular-rockular ◴[14 Nov 24 19:30 UTC] No.42140165[source]▶
You would be surprised how many people have no idea what "machine learning" means (not even technical definition but just as in the field). I'm working on a PhD in an adjacent field and basically have to tell people I work in AI for them to have any semblance of what I do.
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namaria ◴[14 Nov 24 22:50 UTC] No.42142060[source]▶
I don't think telling people that have no idea what machine learning is that you work with 'AI' is giving them any semblance of understanding what you do.
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1. ocular-rockular ◴[15 Nov 24 16:56 UTC] No.42148632[source]▶
No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.