“Median person in ML” varies wildly by population. To people in AI safety, capabilities researchers at Openai et al represent the quintessential “ML people”, and most of them understand deep learning about as well as Bengio. I agree that the median person employed in an ML role knows very little, but you can do a lot of ML without running into the average “ML” person.
“Median person in ML” varies wildly by population. To people in AI safety, capabilities researchers at Openai et al represent the quintessential “ML people”, and most of them understand deep learning about as well as Bengio. I agree that the median person employed in an ML role knows very little, but you can do a lot of ML without running into the average “ML” person.