- Marketing depts want to sell AI solutions as it’s higher perceived value
- Execs/managers want to check an AI checkbox to show their using the latest tech
- Practioners want to grow AI skills to find interesting opportunities and stand out from regular devs
- Academia wants to talk up their AI solution to get more attention and funding (and find jobs!)
- The media wants to write about robots taking over the world
Whether or not there’s real value when any particular machine learning solution on any given domain problem is seen as less important than the signaling that we’re all using cutting edge tech. We all just participate in the mutual deception.
- Marketing depts want to sell AI solutions as it’s higher perceived value
- Execs/managers want to check an AI checkbox to show their using the latest tech
- Practioners want to grow AI skills to find interesting opportunities and stand out from regular devs
- Academia wants to talk up their AI solution to get more attention and funding (and find jobs!)
- The media wants to write about robots taking over the world
Whether or not there’s real value when any particular machine learning solution on any given domain problem is seen as less important than the signaling that we’re all using cutting edge tech. We all just participate in the mutual deception.