The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

Re:The new business of AI and how it’s different from tradit... by zelly on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @05:38AM (#22354960)

> ML is the ultimate winner-take all technology.

Hence the flood of ML grads which will only get bigger and bigger as time goes on.

As a general observation of business, returns per unit of labor can range from completely linear (factories, hospitals) to more nonlinear in things like software or art. ML researcher is on the far end of this. Yes, Bengio and Goodfellow get paid 7 figures, but that's because even if you pay 100 amateurs 1/100th of that, they will still produce worse work.

If you want to be a good ML researcher, the time to get in was 10 years ago.

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Re:The new business of AI and how it’s different from tradit... by ThePhysicist on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @07:09AM (#22355342)

For broad research yes, I think there are still so many niches though where if you can combine domain expertise with good knowledge of ML you can achieve great results, simply because there will not be many people with this skill combination.

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