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Is it still worth building a serious ML/AI skillset in 2026 with AGI moving so fast? What skills actually stay valuable?

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I'm trying to make a serious multi-year investment in ML/AI, and I'd genuinely like opinions from people working in the field rather than generic career advice. My background is an M.Sc. in Statistics, so I already have a reasonably strong foundation in probability, statistical inference, regressio…

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  1. 2026-09-12 10:51 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Is it still worth building a serious ML/AI skillset in 2026 with AGI moving so fast? What skills actually stay valuable?

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