[golemarms]

> I'd also add, maybe controversially, that anyone using "AI" to make some kind of basic prediction (say for personalization, demand planning, medical decisions, really most tabular data) is not going to have a business that lives or dies based on AI.

Unfortunately this rules out the vast majority of business use-cases. ML use-cases on structured data vastly outnumber those of vision/nlp/RL.

Also you seem to be restricting the term "AI" to Neural network-type techniques.

[version_five]

> Also you seem to be restricting the term "AI" to Neural network-type techniques.

I'm curious to know what you are implying with this. Are there commercially relevant startups you know using other "AI"? I'd definitely be interested in a symbolic reasoning startup or some other more obscure AI idea, but I suspect there are vanishingly few so it's unlikely to come up in the OP's job hunt

[golemarms]

Not really symbolic reasoning. I'm thinking more along the line of classic ML techniques like Random Forest/GLMs have long been successfully applied to business problems.