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I'm 27 and I've cofounded only one company in a lifestyle industry (video games). Despite being nearish the top of my particular field, I don't have a PhD in a

I'm 27 and I've cofounded only one company in a lifestyle industry (video games). Despite being nearish the top of my particular field, I don't have a PhD in a relevant field like AI. Games are hard in that they are very competitive, but we're not exactly curing cancer. How behind am I, assuming my primary goal is maximizing positive impact on the world?

sama 10y ago
You are 27. Hard to imagine you'd be behind in anything. But no reason to delay in making the impact you want.
dharma1 10y ago
Your game/GPU programming experience can be very relevant to AI. Take a look at these projects https://unrealcv.github.io https://unrealcv.github.io https://gym.openai.com https://gym.openai.com https://m.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/54p6zq/160907061_quantized_neural_networks_training/ https://m.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/54p6zq/16090...