I am constantly puzzled by people saying that AI is overhyped and fresh grads won't have enough jobs for them. Almost every real life industry: retail, logistics, construction, farming, heavy industries, mining, medicine have just recently started to try AI. The amount of manual and suboptimal tasks that have to be automated and optimized is enormous. I am pretty sure there is more the enough work for applied DSs with domain knowledge in mentioned industries.
Agreed, I feel we are just barely scratching the surface. I'm fairly involved in the AI/ML world (research at FAANG) and the amount of hype definitely scares me, but ML/AI isn't going anywhere soon imo.
I agree with this totally. The amount of benefit we've seen in the last 5 years due to ML model improvements is staggering. There is huge potential to apply even pre-trained models in tons of industries. BERT + fine tuning solves domain-specific NLP problems far better than the cutting edge research of a couple years ago.
That being said, the business / marketing use of terms like "AI" is way out of control.
