You can't keep hype without some actual successes. If everyone gets on the hype train without researching where it is going it'll overheat
Which I guess is bound to happen. But, it is possible to fight those forces by critiquing frauds and prolong these "ai golden years" as long as we can in order to promote more advances
Sure you can, for a few years, the trick is to time your exit just before you have to deliver, and just as the next tech fashion is getting started.
The Cloud guys are doing the same thing, right now. As are the DevOps snake oil salesmen. In fact if you can pull off DevOps Machine Learning in the Cloud, you will make a fortune before the music stops.
In my experience, actively working in a field gives decent insight into direction. Then again I was still in school during dot com so not sure what happened there. If you're investing yeah timing's tricky for sure
And perhaps that's true for starting a business as well. I'm simply speaking as a lowly employee who drifts where my nose takes me
In this game being an employee is no different from being an investor, you need to sense which way the wind is blowing and position yourself accordingly.
Here's an example, there is no cloud. It's just a computer somewhere else that you rent time on. They were doing this in the 1970s when they were called computer bureaus. But put the right buzzwords on your CV and KER-CHING!
I guess I am lucky. I studied machine learning starting in 2006 and haven't felt the pinch. Always seem to be jobs available. I know I'm destined to learn this lesson but I really don't want to :-P
Which I guess is bound to happen. But, it is possible to fight those forces by critiquing frauds and prolong these "ai golden years" as long as we can in order to promote more advances