AI engineering skills do not easily transfer across narrow domains
Emi Gal · AI is now revolutionizing early cancer detection | Emi Gal, CEO of Ezra · Mar 6, 2024 · at 35:09
Emi Gal, founder and CEO of Ezra, reflects on hiring lessons learned while building AI models for medical MRI scans.
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“I have learned the hard way that it's not that transferable. You actually need, if you're trying to push the state of the art, you need people who have proven experience in the very, very specific narrow scope of problem that you're trying to solve.”
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