The tribal thesis in the AI world seems to be that AI workers don't need subject matter expertise, as the AI will figure it out during training. In fact, subject matter expertise can be a negative because it's a distraction from making the AI good enough to figure it out on its own.
This assumption has proven to be very fragile, but I don't think the AI bigwigs have accepted that yet. Still flush from the success of things like AlphaZero, where this thesis was more true.
This assumption has proven to be very fragile, but I don't think the AI bigwigs have accepted that yet. Still flush from the success of things like AlphaZero, where this thesis was more true.