Google is looking for someone with "10 years of experience as a pre-sales or engineering manager in relation to AI." 🤦‍♀️ 😂

 

Google is looking for someone with "10 years of experience as a pre-sales or engineering manager in relation to AI." 10 years? Good luck with that one fellas 🤦‍♀️ 😂 

Lately I'm seeing a lot of job ads (clearly written by AI), wanting "AI experience". To do what?

I love a good analogy so here's one. It's like saying you want someone "experienced with cars". To do what? To drive? Design? New strategy? Product development? Manufacture? Build electronics? Service? Paint? To achieve what end? What kind of car? What brand? Existing technology or new? 

The devil is in the detail, and ads that articulate the What and Why are far more interesting than these generic "AI experience" ones. Right now, few businesses are truly profiting from AI implementations and many are losing, so specifying exactly what AI skills an individual needs to have, and how long they need to have had them for, is vaguely ridiculous to those of us who have been utilising and innovating with often new technology to solve business problems for decades.

Technology is the tool, not the solution. It’s the means, not the end. That includes AI and whatever the next shiny buzzword will be.

I wrote an article about practical applications of innovating with AI.

Happy weekend!

This article was first published on LinkedIn