Every Field Is Becoming an AI Field

The ISM symposium gave me a much better picture of how AI and machine learning are influencing the world. I've spent most of this year studying ML as a subject. At the symposium, it showed up as something people have to deal with in their work.

There were different stations, classes, and speakers, and each one came at AI from a different direction. What stood out most was hearing from people with different backgrounds. They were all describing the same technology, but from completely different seats.

I did two interviews as part of the symposium. The first was with a woman who works in supply chain. I didn't expect her field to connect to my interests, but she spent a lot of the conversation explaining how much AI and machine learning are changing her industry. Her advice helped me a lot. It showed me that ML matters far outside the places you'd normally look for it.

My second interview was with the lead of the physical education department at Frisco ISD. She taught me how AI is being introduced into schools and how the school environment changes as it arrives. I'm a student, so school is where I spend my whole day. Hearing it explained from the staff side was new to me.

This connects to my September post, where I wrote about why a model that works in testing can fail once it's deployed. The people I talked to are the ones who find out what happens after deployment. They see where AI helps their work and where it doesn't.

Next, I want to keep asking people outside tech how AI shows up in their jobs.