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While there may be a lot of demand for AI/ML, I’m concerned to whether there are enough students with the proper foundations in math and stats to do well. New c
by QML 8y ago
While there may be a lot of demand for AI/ML, I’m concerned to whether there are enough students with the proper foundations in math and stats to do well. New classes such as Data Science seem to just instruct students how to use algorithms and not why.
- fixermark 8y agoLooking at the curriculum CMU has put together (https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curriculum https://www.cs.cmu.edu/bs-in-artificial-intelligence/curricu...), I see statistical fundamentals in the Math and Statistics Core. I expect it should handle the why and the how. (... though I get the sense from the outside looking in that a lot of machine learning at this point is still a little bit alchemy, so there may not always even be a firm "why" answer to give. All the more reason to give students firm general fundamental groundings so they can seek out those answers).
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- fma 8y agoI see students that graduate with degrees in CS/IT to fill the demand. Quality has declined... Translating to AI/ML I would assume the same. I think CMU would retain quality, but the local universities will start churning out AI degrees like butter.
- gowld 8y agoAre you talking about undergraduate courses, or non-accredited certificate courses? We've had stuff like A+ / Cisco / Java certifications for decades. They fill an important niche, but they aren't how industry leaders are trained.
- QML 8y agoOnly referring to my experience as an undergrad: most students seemed to be turned away by the mathematics.