Where is the massive investment in AI going?

[Anonymous]

Where is the massive investment in AI going? I would love to work in the field, but when I search on various job sites I don't see many jobs being advertised. Or, they may come with different titles that are not AI specific.

Anyways I was curious as very other day all I here is 1 billion here, 10 billions there, 5 billion never ending billions upon billions of investments in AI.

Where are the jobs?

[Anonymous]

At our company it's IT people who have gone to a seminar and transitioned into being "AI" and they're not very good at it.

[Anonymous]

Is this sarcasm

[Anonymous]

Search for machine learning engineer, computer vision engineer, cloud infrastructure engineer etc...But AI is not an entry level field. Those in the industry are not newcomers.

In the years to come we will start seeing jobs supporting the AI models. For now though most of the jobs advertised are for experts.

[Anonymous]

The problem is AI is very scalable and is deployed on systems with specific chips designed for them. You don't need many people for this.

[Anonymous]

It’s mostly hype.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly hype.

Tell that to people who have lost their job to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly hype.

Tell that to people who have lost their job to it.

Where? Most of the companies firing over hired during covid. They were even hiring people to avoid them going to a competitor. It’s true there has been job loss due to AI but it’s mostly an excuse. Just like RTO is an excuse to lay off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly hype.

Tell that to people who have lost their job to it.

They havent lost their jobs to AI, they’ve lost them to computer engineers in India.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is the massive investment in AI going? I would love to work in the field, but when I search on various job sites I don't see many jobs being advertised. Or, they may come with different titles that are not AI specific.

Anyways I was curious as very other day all I here is 1 billion here, 10 billions there, 5 billion never ending billions upon billions of investments in AI.

Where are the jobs?

India

All out jobs are going there too.

[Anonymous]

It's going out of your pocket and into theirs.

[Anonymous]

A friend builds data centers and says there is a job shortage of 120,000+ to manage and operate centers in the U.S. alone. The jobs are primarily QC/maintenance/repair oriented, and it all sounds very Matrix to me -- humans serving the machines. But apparently there is a lot of opportunity there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A friend builds data centers and says there is a job shortage of 120,000+ to manage and operate centers in the U.S. alone. The jobs are primarily QC/maintenance/repair oriented, and it all sounds very Matrix to me -- humans serving the machines. But apparently there is a lot of opportunity there.

No, that's not right.

Data centers, whether for AI or bitcoin mining, create a handful of construction jobs, but virtually no maintenance jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly hype.

Tell that to people who have lost their job to it.

Yeah, no kidding! I brought AI into our company, then the run and maintain phase was outsourced to India and all 5 of us were let go. I just found another job and they asked me to do the same thing - bring AI into the company with the vision that the run and maintain will be done in India. It's cheap labor there - we cannot compete. I make ~400k + bonuses here; my equivalent in India tops out at $100k. The only reason I'm still valuable is cultural and time zone convenience. People here still prefer my accent and cultural references. Probably moreso in the future with the cultural shift in this administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s mostly hype.

Tell that to people who have lost their job to it.

Where? Most of the companies firing over hired during covid. They were even hiring people to avoid them going to a competitor. It’s true there has been job loss due to AI but it’s mostly an excuse. Just like RTO is an excuse to lay off.

It's very real - all tech companies, most IT companies, all energy companies , it's real.