Artificial-Intelligence Experts Are in High Demand
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#2AI is very interesting but not very accessible because it's so specialized. I have a fairly strong programming background but feel like I'd need to study theory for a significant amount of time to even get my feet wet with AI.
If you have (condensed, especially) AI resources that you think would help bridge that gap, please share! Toy-scale project ideas would also be appreciated.
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#3However, with the abysmal standards of hiring, I'm sure a lot of companies would pass on very good candidates because they won't write FizzBuzz on the board for you, or companies would pass on Peter Norvig because his code is not Pep8 compliant
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#4This is suspiciously close "data science" and "machine learning" experts.
Can't we just be honest and say that most of these are applied statistics jobs with a specialty in large volumes of data? Or is "statistics" just not fashionable enough nowadays?
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#5How can there be experts on a subject that doesn't yet exist?
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#6AI is very interesting but not very accessible because it's so specialized. I have a fairly strong programming background but feel like I'd need to study theory for a significant amount of time to even get my feet wet with AI. If you have (condensed, especially) AI resources that you think would help bridge that gap, please share! Toy-scale project ideas would also be appreciated.
There was a tutorial link trending on HN a few months back, I can't seem to find it. But these links are helpful (though not condensed) as well:
https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learnin...
https://github.com/owainlewis/awesome-artificial-intelligenc...
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#7However, with the abysmal standards of hiring, I'm sure a lot of companies would pass on very good candidates because they won't write FizzBuzz on the board for you, or companies would pass on Peter Norvig because his code is not Pep8 compliant
Not sure if you're being serious but are you sure they would even care whether these kinds of candidates could program? I am skeptical they hired them to code; I imagine they mostly spend their time doing research and then have the SDEs implement things.
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#8However, with the abysmal standards of hiring, I'm sure a lot of companies would pass on very good candidates because they won't write FizzBuzz on the board for you, or companies would pass on Peter Norvig because his code is not Pep8 compliant
But there would still need to be a fizzbuzz style filter for AI jobs to keep out the people who overstate their abilities. Is there a good test for basic AI job capability?
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#9How can there be experts on a subject that doesn't yet exist?
Actually there can be anything possible in the articles that are published by so called Tech Journalists who have no idea of the fundamentals of the tech.
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#10However, with the abysmal standards of hiring, I'm sure a lot of companies would pass on very good candidates because they won't write FizzBuzz on the board for you, or companies would pass on Peter Norvig because his code is not Pep8 compliant
But there would still need to be a fizzbuzz style filter for AI jobs to keep out the people who overstate their abilities. Is there a good test for basic AI job capability?
You just interview people.
Ask them to explain what a SVM is. Ask them to explain how training a linear perceptron works. This kind of stuff.