When the current ML wave started taking off around 2020, I happened to be quite disillusioned and took what looked like a thoughtless detour into consulting and so-called forward-deployed engineering. I kept publishing in my spare time (w/o an affiliation), so most of my peers
Users in the replies dismiss AI industry discussions around the researcher's ML boom career detour as delusional and detached from reality.
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had no idea what I was really doing. In retrospect, and at the time, it was an unusually valuable experience (given contact with concrete workflows in ≥ half a dozen domains). It left me convinced that most chatter here about AI diffusion, ROI, the "AI race" is delusional.
When the current ML wave started taking off around 2020, I happened to be quite disillusioned and took what looked like a thoughtless detour into consulting and so-called forward-deployed engineering. I kept publishing in my spare time (w/o an affiliation), so most of my peers
Here, it's so detached from reality, that it's not even worth commenting on (pardon the meta commentary, however). It's closer to football commentary about the "frontier" than anything else, usually without having played football.