Ask HN: Getting into AI?
If you get into it now, you'll probably be on the losing end of a pork cycle [1].<p>All of the hype is creating overinvestment on the side of "producers" of AI.  All that overinvestment will mature at roundabout the same time.  When it all hits the market at the same time, they'll have to fiercely compete with each other at the same time as having to deal with "reality" kicking in, i.e. learning the difference between hype and real demand to create real value for real paying customers.  There will be massive oversupply.<p>You'd have to find some way to be short that thing, i.e. to somehow take the other side of that trade.<p>You want to be on the receiving end of that investment with no exposure to the crash that will follow (if any).  For example, if you had an AI background now, you could start an AI school.  Your customers would be people taking the hype at face value.  You'd take their money now, but when it later turns out that the skill isn't worth in the job market what they thought it would be, you're not exposed to that.  ...that's what acting school does for wannabe Hollywood superstars.  Running an acting school for wannabe stars is definitely a better business than trying to actually be a star.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_cycle</a>