alt Hacker NewsI guess I have the opposite experience. I have a post-graduate level of mathematical education and I am dismayed at how little there is to be gained from it, when it comes to AI/ML. Diffusion Models and Geometric Deep Learning are the only two fields where there's any math at all. Many math grads are struggling to find a job at all. They aren't outclassing programmers with their leet math skillz.
Don't worry when stochastic grads get stuck math grads get going.
(One of) The value(s) that a math grad brings is debugging and fixing these ML models when training fails. Many would not have an idea about how to even begin debugging why the trained model is not working so well, let alone how to explore fixes.