need advice on choosing AI/ML as a career (beehaw.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by heisenberg@beehaw.org to c/askbeehaw@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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[-] heisenberg@beehaw.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Asking how the job will be seems like the wrong question to me, when you’re trying to answer what the studies will be

I want my study to be fruitful. that's why I also want to know about job opportunity. it's just that I don't see use cases of AI/ML in daily life. the only thing installed is an OCR. wanted some perspective that's all.

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