Posted by acmerfight 8 hours ago
As someone who's tried and mostly failed to get anywhere in the AI space these past few years, I'm wondering how current AI practitioners perceive this advice two years on?
For prospective new products it feels like effective moats have been constructed - and you mostly have to pay to use someone's api. And on the career perspective its hard to get experience now without pre-existing experience.
Wondering how others see this.
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andrewyng_how-to-build-your-c...
I think to get somewhere in the AI space you usually need to work somewhere that's solving real problems where AI can help. I know that sounds trite and reductive but it's also where the success lies IME.
I think thats very true, and not trite or reductive at all.
I used to work for a data-heavy SME and tried to get the senior leadership interested in exploring AI in some commercially useful problem spaces. The main issues I had were not the tech, but resourcing and getting sufficient buy-in to work on it for more than a few sprints. In the end I failed on both counts.
In career terms its like "you can't get there from here". I wish there was a howto for that.