Why does talking about a special interest have to be a negative/panic response? I do this all the time and people seem interested. Or they suddenly have to go haha. Either way, you asked! Though these days, talking about machine learning is more socially acceptable than it used to be thanks to ChatGPT! A lot of opportunities to correct misinformation too, though people hate being wrong, so that needs some care…
Anyway, yeah, I take that as an invitation!
0 in our case, but we are pretty strict. Same at the first place I worked too. Big tech companies.