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need advice on choosing AI/ML as a career (beehaw.org)
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I know very little so please don't mind a lot of stupid questions. bee emoji

I want to do my masters in AI/ML but afraid that it will be difficult for me to understand. I am not a bright student and struggle with understanding maths a lot. how much maths does an average AI/ML person do in their job? what things I should keep in mind while learning AI/ML?

does whole AI/ML landscape has been taken over by LLMs? I have seen a lot of people complaining about CEOs shoving LLM every where instead of just a simple ML model.

what does AI/ML people do exactly? I mean what are their roles? does the most important task for an AI/ML person is to decide which model to use or is it preparing the data or understanding the requirements?

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[–] 4 points 2 months ago

Unfortunately, the field is pretty brutal about just assuming you are fully caught up to everything in the field, or that you will read the references for a given statement. You often don't need to know all the math, but at least have a general idea of what some concepts are. I've been part of 'journal clubs' for the past 5 years where the only really goal is to stay abreast of the changes going on so that a new paper doesn't send me down a rabbit hole of reading a referenced paper, which also has unknown terms, and read those references, etcetcetera.

I'm not in a great position to give useful advice due to that. it might be a good approach to find a youtuber who gives a 20-30 minute review/summary of a single paper that looks interesting, and of the video makes sense, then try to read the paper, and if you get stuck, see if the YouTuber has a video on the concept that got you stuck.

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