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Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

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Re: Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

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Dumb question, but... Is AI and ML the same thing? I ask because I am seeing a lot of my ML peers claim to be AI experts with years of experience, even though the term AI wasn't really used at all until OpenAI got big.

AI as a field has been around since the 50s and gone through multiple paradigms, but modern AI (since its resurgence around 2010) is effectively all machine learning.

Re: Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

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Dumb question, but... Is AI and ML the same thing? I ask because I am seeing a lot of my ML peers claim to be AI experts with years of experience, even though the term AI wasn't really used at all until OpenAI got big.

This is the venn diagram I keep seeing when this question is asked: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363930739/figure/fi...

GenAI ⊆ Deep Learning ⊆ Machine Learning ⊆ AI, where ⊆ means "Is a subset of."

Re: Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

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Dumb question, but... Is AI and ML the same thing? I ask because I am seeing a lot of my ML peers claim to be AI experts with years of experience, even though the term AI wasn't really used at all until OpenAI got big.

Im not a programmer, but my understanding is that back in the '80s investors got in a frenzy when the idea of AI was big. They threw money at it and... it was decades away. Then they tried the "e" phase that became the dot com boom... and it was overhyped. This pattern has occured several times with programs.

Technology has been progressing and the definition of AI is loose at best when marketing is nearby. I have a question: what kinds of ways do people describe "unemployed" on linkedin? It is probably glossed over and hyped based on whatever marketing is difficult to verify and is at least adjacent to reality. I think this is similar to ML researchers classifying themselves as AI researchers. HOWEVER, there may be a lot more overlap than simply "adjacent", so someone please correct me if the term "machine learning" or "AI" are regulated terms for public advertisement.

Re: Reading list to join AI field from Hugging Face cofounder

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Dumb question, but... Is AI and ML the same thing? I ask because I am seeing a lot of my ML peers claim to be AI experts with years of experience, even though the term AI wasn't really used at all until OpenAI got big.

If we want to be precise (and it seems like you do):

AI = machines doing human-like tasks.

ML = machines learning to do stuff.

Doing financial modeling or code-base security auditing 100x better than a person is good ML and not AI at all.

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