[bilekas]

Could you define what you mean when you say :

> Has anyone made the official career pivot to the ML/AI field?

If you're talking about using ML/AI related tools and algorythms and taking advantage of what they can do, maybe for data processing etc then that's not really too hard an ask, infact these days depending on your role there could probably be a natural progression into these areas.

The problem comes from the core of these types of work, so creating the algorithms, building new model, processing the raw data into something that is useful and this involves even being really close to the hardware level too. I find that it's hugely academic and mathematical focused, for obvious reasons.

It's certainly stuff that flies over my head and for me personally no matter how interested I am in it, I don't think it will ever 'click' for me.