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It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what you're doing isn't a real job. Who hands someone who doesn't speakt the language a contract to sign? Don't you have a legal department that does this job for you and has people that are specialists for that? Also, what are you going to do if the AI answered inaccurately and you signed a contract that says something different then what you thought?

Similar to "real work," a "real job" is a definitional problem that attacks people's senses of self.

I am actually pretty sure that the thing described literally isn’t a real job, at least not working for a serious employer. I can’t imagine a company telling someone to sign contracts in a language they can’t speak and somehow try to make a sense of it.

Either it’s their own company and they’re doing something unwise, they are doing it without the knowledge of their superior or their company shouldn’t be trusted with anything.

The point was that „AI helps me translate the contracts I want to sign“ isn’t a good example of „AI increases my productivity“ because that’s not something you should ever do.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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> All that being said, AI is not for every software engineer. I’ve seen about a 50-50 success rate of engineers entering this field. The most important determiner is a specific flavor of technical humility. Oh, give me an f-ing break and spare me the self-congratulation.

You can't expect much from "It's time to become an ML engineer" written in the AI hype period.

Re: It's time to become an ML engineer (2022)

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Did you used to be a blockchain engineer?

You can find out a little more about Greg's background here: https://gregbrockman.com/ Rather than a crypto-guy, he used to be the CTO of Stripe, who were moderately successful.

Like most CEOs he probably just asked the model ‘tell me about Greg Brockman’ and got a nice response. Thus they think it’s amazing.

C suite love LLMs because the make them feel important, but they don’t have to use them for anything serious.

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