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by ocular-rockular 582 days ago
You would be surprised how many people have no idea what "machine learning" means (not even technical definition but just as in the field). I'm working on a PhD in an adjacent field and basically have to tell people I work in AI for them to have any semblance of what I do.
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I don't think telling people that have no idea what machine learning is that you work with 'AI' is giving them any semblance of understanding what you do.
No, it's not. But at least they have some relative, albeit flawed, context. It's the difference of having heard of something vs not.