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by mattmanser 2968 days ago
Who said anything about him using it for health care or self driving cars?

The vast majority of applications for AI/ML can be done with libraries, just like the vast majority of programmers doesn't need to understand how to make a compiler or even how memory works. It just helps.
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mywittyname 2967 days ago
The vast majority of programmers do need to understand boolean algebra though. Likewise, you do need to understand matrix algebra and statistics to do any AI/ML beyond a color-by-numbers problem.

At some point you need to explain why something works.

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mattmanser 2967 days ago
Matrix algebra and statistics are taught in high school, or at least were when I was young.

A random 40 y/o programmer might be rusty on it, but it's not going to take very long to pick it all up again.

And if you've done any game programming even just for fun, you probably know quite a bit of that already.

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