I do not take the posts of “AI influencers” seriously. And neither should you.

AI influencers do not earn their living through technology; they earn their living by generating engagements, offering paid marketing services, and soliciting consulting contracts.

“… you cannot separate knowledge from contact with the ground. Actually, you cannot separate anything from contact with the ground. And the contact with the real world is done via skin in the game — having an exposure to the real world, and paying a price for its consequences, good or bad. The abrasions of your skin guide your learning and discovery, a mechanism of organic signaling, what the Greeks called pathemata mathemata (“guide your learning through pain,” something mothers of young children know rather well).” - Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb.

In essence, AI influencers are noises.

It’s fine to read some resposting of clipped charts and tables from research papers, watch some cool demo videos created for the purpose of demo, or even try out some of the new services that they shared on their timelines. However, it’s important to note that they are compensated by posting and oftentimes lacks the competencies in either understanding or practicing the ideas they preached.

Their pretented technical knowledge often falls apart when discussing engineering challenges or when they tries to sound smart by throwing in technical jargons that misrepresents technically - embeddings! latent space! exponentials! gradient descent!

AI/ML is an engineering field that is rapidly evolving. Focus on core knowledges that does not change, not the latest post of the day.

@article{
    leehanchung,
    author = {Lee, Hanchung},
    title = {Stop Following Tech Influencers},
    year = {2024},
    month = {07},
    howpublished = {\url{https://leehanchung.github.io}},
    url = {https://leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2024/05/22/stop-following-ai-influencers/}
}