Hi everyone! I’m excited to say that this is my first post on Lemmy! This reminds me of “the old days” when I was first learning the internet (in a good way!) I’m a Computer Science grad student focusing on AI, and have an interest in a ton of different areas. Anyway, it’s great to be here!
Hi! What sort of AI research do you do?
Oh I can’t say that I do research just yet. I’m still doing coursework (cue the imposter syndrome lol). I’ve been getting into Reinforcement Learning, recently, especially Deep Reinforcement Learning.
Coursework is important! I just became course-complete this spring haha. Not my field but that seems like the fundamentals of ML. From what you’ve studied so far, what would you like to accomplish in the next few years?
Reinforcement Learning is one of the three fundamental types of ML. I’m into algorithm work, though, so it’s kind of hard to make concise without sounding weird. Plus, as it stands now, there is so much other work that has been accomplished around the field that it’s almost like playing with Legos; you can just try slapping two ideas together to see what sticks. To be honest, it’s a equally exciting and frustrating. I don’t have really have lofty goals for now. I’m studying while working full time, which is a challenge (mostly in time and sleeping), so I really just want to publish something that is deemed at least mildly useful. As hokey overly-sentimental as it may sound, Computer Science was a field that was good to me, so I feel like I should give something back.