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Major in the most practical stuff, minor in the interesting stuff. I'd say CS/EECS major, Philsophy and Math minors with focuses in AI for everything. You hav
by Madmallard 12y ago
Major in the most practical stuff, minor in the interesting stuff.
I'd say CS/EECS major, Philsophy and Math minors with focuses in AI for everything.
You have the option after that for doing AI in a master's or PHD program.
- tormeh 12y agoBut be warned: Modern AI is really just glorified statistics.
- eli_gottlieb 12y agoThis statement depends on a quite expansive interpretation of the word "statistics", to include generative models over the real numbers (statistics proper, as we all learned it in school), nongenerative but probabilistic machine learning, probabilistic programming (aka: Turing-complete generative modeling), and the probabilistic approach to cognitive science (which uses more-or-less all of the above).
- yzzxy 12y agoThanks for not answering the questions I asked - namely whether CS degrees administered partially by philosophy departments are any good - and for making the assumption that you know what is "practical" and what is "interesting" for me. Not everyone wants to follow the classic SV career path.
- brational 12y ago>Not everyone wants to follow the classic SV career path. I'd argue that the previous poster's advice applies to ANY career path that isn't academia.
- scott_s 12y agoIn case you're wondering: you're being downvoted for being rude. You asked for advice, received it, then attacked someone who gave you good-faith advice.
- yzzxy 12y agoYou're right, I was overly rude, and I regret the wording of what I wrote. I feel the above commenter was misguided in the subject his advice but it was probably well-intended.