When I started my MS in 2018, my focus and interests were in complex systems and computer vision. I remember back then being more interested in Hinton’s capsule

When I started my MS in 2018, my focus and interests were in complex systems and computer vision. I remember back then being more interested in Hinton’s capsule nets when the paper “attention is all you need” was new. I am looking forward to when this LLM fever passes. The most interesting thing to come from all of this is IMO, the semi-recent uses of RAG and vector search. More recently, having had some exposure to a CS undergrad group of ~120 seniors, anxiety and frustration (related to the job market) were exactly how I would have described the zeitgeist as well… as another post mentioned, I suppose this is all part and parcel of software engineering - and now applications of machine learning (and PhD degrees in any/all fields for that matter) - increasingly becoming ever more commoditized. Such is life in a world of capitalism I guess?