Comment by hintymad
10 months ago
Even before the amazing achievement of LLM, there were millions of "ML engineers" on LinkedIn, per some stats about LinkedIn jobs. I'll bet a single digit percent of them could even derive the math of linear regression or every implemented a single ML algorithm from scratch. Not that it is wrong, mind you, but it means it's unlikely for half the "AI engineers" to read research papers.
A lot of people did a MOOC for the CV points.