So we are in 2019, and ML/AI is big. Autonomous vehicles somewhat big but still underdelivering. AR/VR is disappointing. If you look forward 5/10 years. What will be the next big trends in engineering? What should we start learning today to be an early adopter?
Self driving cars I think will be one of the defining things of the 21st century. But, that is more like 20 years out. Minimum. Question... Does there always have to be a big thing every 5 years? How impatient have we gotten anyway?
Quantum if the HW engineers would ever get their shit together
Yeah. That one is complete moonshot from what I have seen so far
Quantum is cool (pun)! It's always going to remain a niche and specialized due to physics constraints. You aren't going to build a quantum computer for classical use-cases. For our career lifetimes, it won't be relevant. If you're a researcher, there's work, but not many positions.
Ya next big things. Who knows but ML/AI looks good. Some article said by 2022 we will need relearn whatever we doing now.
AR/VR finally taking off..?
You are really mix tech and business model. Ai/ml is technology while Av is business model. Looks like you are not knowing something basic
Please educate us all on since you are " Knowing something basic"
He are not knowing something basic grammarly
On the horizon, mostly work in the entertainment and healthcare domains (use of AI, VR, robotics, 3D printing). Single field expertise will become outdated soon.
It is hard to guess. I did my PhD research in AI 20+ years ago (because it was the next big thing back then already). It is only now taking off and was irrelevant to my career.
Yeah, same thing here... What appears promising doesn't take off immediately unless big money pumps it up. We got side-tracked by opening up of stock-trading to the public and higher exposure to the financial markets (housing boom included). Who cares about physics and biology when you can make money instead? /s
Automating away of software developers, they are too expensive. Using software to monitor/spy and drive developers productivity. No more rest and vest.
Andrej Karpathy is already working on that -- building software 2.0 -- https://youtu.be/y57wwucbXR8
We have been building software to automate software developers since 1940s. Building this software requires more and more developers every year! Using AI to develop software is hardly a new idea. I am very skeptical that this is the next thing...
It looks like we are waiting for the next big thing to come