The company I work for is pushing AI aggressively, and I’ve seen many open positions for AI/ML architects, experience with AI/ML, etc. I would like to learn more, but I’m still not certain of how to use this new technology as an individual contributor.

For example, a task at my current work could be to develop a powerbi dashboard or an SSRS report (and its associated sql). Another task could be to fix a stored procedure that breaks when being executed. A bigger user story could be to create a web service that reads some JSON and dumps it to a sql table. These are all specific tasks that have a concrete deliverable (ie. deliver the dashboard/report, run the SP successfully, check that the table has the parsed JSON).

With that line of thought, what specific tasks would involve AI/ML? For example, how can I use Amazon Bedrock, SageMaker, or Azure OpenAI to work on a task? And what would the deliverable be?

I pasted this general idea of what AI and ML is and it makes sense, but it doesn’t sound like something that an individual contributor would do.

AI is a general term used for the field which is trying to mimic human behaviour and its intelligence. Any method or approach which is capable of doing this comes under AI.

Machine learning is a subset of AI which implements AI by learning patterns from data and then make predictions based on these patterns.