[alkonaut]

Updated my answer: these are middle managers such as division or site managers not the top managers of the billion dollar corporations (who might well have great visions but it’s not on them to implement it.). As I clarified, these projcects are always vague initiatives such as “use more ai in our process” or downright marketing stupidity such as “joe, I need you to work AI into the description of our latest hammer model”. Again this is old, traditional industry.

[gk1]

Sounds like a great opportunity to provide value and charge accordingly.

Baking off-the-shelf anomaly detection into the hammer QA process might seem easy and “not true AI” to us, but it solves their problem. Maybe you can even educate them in the process, and explain the differences between AI, ML, DL, different use cases and methods, libraries, etc. I suspect, though, they won’t care because they just want to hit their business goals.