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lightyagami03 t1_jde9kv5 wrote

is it even worth trying to break into AI/ML now as a CS student or has everything already been/will be solved in the near future? like the jump from GPT3.5 to 4 was insane, soon GPT 5 will roll out and it'll be even better, and GPT6 might as well be AGI, at which point there wouldnt be anything to work towards

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trnka t1_jdhvzy3 wrote

Eh, we've gone through a lot of hype cycles before and the field still exists. For example, deep learning was hyped to replace all feature engineering for all problems and then NLP would be trivialized. In practice, that was overhyped and you still need to understand NLP to get value out of deep learning for NLP. And in practice, there's still quite a bit of feature engineering (and practices like it).

I think LLMs will turn out to be similar. They'll change the way we approach many problems, but you'll still need to understand both LLMs and more problem-specific aspects of ML.

Back to your question, if you enjoy AI/ML and you're worried about jobs in a few years, I think it's still worth pursuing your interests.

If anything, the bigger challenge in jobs in the next year or two is the current job market.

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