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Can you elaborate on what "AI engineer" means to you?

I left the question a bit open ended to see the diversity of the field and to hopefully gather advice that could benefit others as well.

That said, primarily _for me_ it's more defined in what it doesn't mean - Which is software engineering _using_ AI (eg - LLMs) and prompt engineering. I'm already a self-taught web/mobile developer with 10+ years experience, and have built some toy projects using LLMs and image diffusion models. Where I believe I have more interest is in the research scientist route. I have prior education in biology/ecology/behavior, and would love to combine the fields.

there's ml, which requires math. lots of it, for the rest of us there's so much we can build now by just interfacing with language models using tools like langchain or llama index.

The future of ai, is models so advance only an ai can understand or create them, and they will do just that I'm a feedback loop of sorts.

Got it, thx for clarification. I think you're asking how to move into data science.

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