I’ve been seeing a lot of new titles and roles emerging all around me like “AI Integration Specialist,” “AI Engineer,” "AI Strategist”. It feels like these titles multiply faster than the field itself can mature. I just don’t like how this is going. I don’t ignore the fact that genuine expertise does exist. Researchers, engineers, and scientists have spent decades working in the field long before we call it all as “AI.” Their knowledge is real, hard earned. I’m not talking about them. However, nowadays, a different breed has been emerging. Apparently this is (again) the perfect time for people to claim expertise without the long term experience, or understanding, or before AI actually come to age. They promise companies a “transformation”; efficiency, profit, less workers. In the meantime the technology still shifts fundamentally every few months, even its leading researchers disagree on its very trajectory, we are witnessing the birth of a new discipline. So my question is when did these strategists actually gain enough experience deploying AI in real business environments, dealt with the consequences or the impact to call themselves experts? AI is not the first technology in this regard. These hypes manufacture fake experts, all the time. The gap between what is known and what is asserted becomes impossible to foresee. In that gap, confidence fills in for competence. Companies scrambling to secure a spot and get their share of the hype; being susceptible to buzzwords, and ready to burn money for some promises. As always, some will succeed. Others will lose their footing, finding themselves spending more time on AI than on the work they were already doing perfectly well before. I see a high chance on chasing false promises, only to face the consequences eventually. In the meantime, those specialists will already be sailing on to their next consultancy job. But the stakes for businesses, industries, and public trust in this technology itself make it worth asking who we are actually letting reshape our culture, infrastructure, and the way we do things. What we are actually doing, and what do we actually need, what is the actual cost? submitted by /u/biyopunk
Originally posted by u/biyopunk on r/ArtificialInteligence