Somehow this reminds me of tutoring students in the computer lab about 40 years ago. On of them was in his 50s working at that time in a lucrative profession as a plumber. He had plenty of work and money, but he was convinced that working as a computer technician was a field of the future and being a plumber was a field of the past.
He had no idea about any computer related subject. This would not have mattered except that he had very low aptitude for this subject. He was apparently able to screw or glue pipes and fixtures together well following a plan given to him by his employers and was well compensated for this but he was afraid this was a dead-end profession.
I have worked with plenty of Saudi people who were pretty bright and probably many can be taught to be good programmers or work with AI. But what innovative ideas have come from Saudi Arabia and do the people who come from there even understand what the potential of AI actually is?
I enjoy working with AI models and have a rudimentary knowledge of how to accomplish some “useful” tasks with them. And the “home lab” that I have set up. But the Saudis are just falling for the hype as everyone tends to.
“But what innovative ideas have come from Saudi Arabia and do the people who come from there even understand what the potential of AI actually is?”
The Saudis I met over the years understood their limitations well.
That is part of what made them intelligent business people.
They will follow rather than lead—scale up concepts that are well grounded.