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I know this might be perceived as an obvious question, but what exactly did you switch from, and to?

He was a professional gamer, and switched to biodynamic agriculture after seeing how little hope humanity had playing games against machines

Meh. People still do athletics competitions even though cars exist and can outpace any human. Weightlifting is also still a thing even though even an entry-level forklift beats any human weightlifter. Chess is more popular than ever before, even though nobody has any hope of beating a computer anymore.

Out of all the fields that human do professionally, sports will be one of the last ones to disappear. The fact that it is (unaugmented) humans competing is the entire point.

> Out of all the fields that human do professionally, sports will be one of the last ones to disappear. The fact that it is (unaugmented) humans competing is the entire point.

This is my thought/hope for what we'll expect in the coming years as AI's automation becomes more commonplace. Society's interests will start going towards activities that showcase human ability - sports, livestreaming (very much its own industry now, but mostly for socializing, art, and gaming), performance, dance, etc. Sure AI can 'do' these things, but not at the level elite performers can or with the subtle nuisances in human personalities.

I don't think the unaugmented qualifier is accurate. What matters is that there are well-established rules defining scope. People racing cars is still a very widely enjoyed form of entertainment.

LOL. Yes, exactly.

Even in the future when the AI is provide everything and we are no longer able to understand it, humans will be doing human competitions, playing chess, etc... The human on human action will be only thing left, and only thing humans care about. Chess is already unwinnable, but humans still want to measure themselves against other humans.

Chess, Go, what next? Pizza delivery? Accountant Simulator? Humans are already being outclassed one feature at a time.

Is it? I'd watch the cyborg Olympics.

On the other hand, watching androids compete in physical sports is going to be pretty cool.

A slow transition (over 5+ years) from web/desktop development into HPC and AI/ML.

I still consider myself a 4/10 at best compared to my amazing peers who studied this from the start, but you have to start somewhere!

If you don't mind sharing even more, what did you do to learn HPC/AI/ML? Any suggestions for getting started?

https://en.algorithmica.org/hpc/

I'd love to hear more about your approach to the shift. How did you pitch yourself during interviews without prior experience?

I'd echo the same sentiment as the other commenters, if you don't mind me throwing my hat into the ring. Considering a MS in Data Science with a focus on ML

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