I’m seeing WAY too many self-described ā€œthe AI guy/gal - follow me to how to leverage AI yada yadaā€ then you look at their LinkedIn and it’s ā€œself employed director of marketingā€ with a BA in Art History. Learn AI from data scientists and programmers who actually built it.

Don’t let the AI grifters get you or your family. Educate yourself.

Follow folks like @DAIR and read.

@shanselman @DAIR it's reminding me a little of when lots of people started pushing web 3.0 as the next big thing... Interesting how that one fizzled out.

The recent wave of "AI" is clearly different (much more mainstream for a start) but seems to be encouraging a similar pattern of people trying to 'own' the space and drive the hype cycle.

@jonhilton @shanselman @DAIR Normies should definitely play with AI to understand the tooling. Right now, it’s like the stumbling into the Library of Alexandria, with no card catalog or a Hypatia to help explain what’s going on.

54% of American adults read at a 5th grade level and are unprepared to grapple with linear and classification regression, lambda cost penalties, etc.