Maybe if you're a big name researcher at a top university. Most people are 'forced' to work on whatever happens to be getting grant money that year. But you ar

Maybe if you're a big name researcher at a top university. Most people are 'forced' to work on whatever happens to be getting grant money that year. But you are more free with regards to how you approach a problem and what you have to deliver. Fortunately AI is hot right now so there are lots of projects where you can get funding simply by saying I want to apply machine learning to X.