[D] Those of you with 10+ years in ML — what is the public completely wrong about?

Reddit r/MachineLearning / 4/4/2026

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Key Points

  • The post asks long-tenured ML practitioners what the general public misunderstands about AI compared with what leading-edge ML research and practice are actually doing.
  • It focuses on identifying collective overestimates or underestimates about AI’s capabilities, methods, or current limitations at the frontier.
  • The format is a community prompt intended to elicit perspectives from experienced researchers and applied ML engineers rather than present new results or an announcement.

For those of you who've been in ML/AI research or applied ML for 10+ years — what's the gap between what the public thinks AI is doing vs. what's actually happening at the frontier? What are we collectively underestimating or overestimating?

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