It may not be quite what you asked for, but I still want to direct you to an interesting read.
If you want get paid to work on the less-computer-sciencey layers of AI you probably do need to be in academia, but if you are fine with the more-computer-sciencey layers (maybe collaborating on the others in spare time) you can probably work at any ordinary (as opposed to general) AI company, like Google if you can manage it.
Well, I appreciate it, but I’ve read a good portion of that already (still working through it, since I’ve got a pretty wide reading list and a lot of free time right now). I am more interested in working at a theoretical level to some degree, though implementation is interesting to me as well of course.
I do not have much interest in working on ordinary AI stuff, I would rather go into Cognitive Science or maybe even applied mathematics. I have a reasonably broad knowledge of theory already (graduate courses in mathematical logic, theory of computation and complexity theory, several independent studies on algebra and algebraic geometry, working on categorical logic and statistical inference/decision theory right now), and my inclination is more at the level of theory than making fun or useful ordinary AI applications.
Plus, I’m pretty sure that in order to get a really great job at Google I would need my PhD anyway (correct me if I’m wrong, that’s just the sort of impression I got when looking at the options there) and there is no way that my coding skills up to par with what Google expects.
I work at Google and don’t have a PhD :-) But if you’re more interested in basic theory, IBM Research or Microsoft Research would be better choices, IMO. Or just go into academia.
It may not be quite what you asked for, but I still want to direct you to an interesting read.
If you want get paid to work on the less-computer-sciencey layers of AI you probably do need to be in academia, but if you are fine with the more-computer-sciencey layers (maybe collaborating on the others in spare time) you can probably work at any ordinary (as opposed to general) AI company, like Google if you can manage it.
Well, I appreciate it, but I’ve read a good portion of that already (still working through it, since I’ve got a pretty wide reading list and a lot of free time right now). I am more interested in working at a theoretical level to some degree, though implementation is interesting to me as well of course.
I do not have much interest in working on ordinary AI stuff, I would rather go into Cognitive Science or maybe even applied mathematics. I have a reasonably broad knowledge of theory already (graduate courses in mathematical logic, theory of computation and complexity theory, several independent studies on algebra and algebraic geometry, working on categorical logic and statistical inference/decision theory right now), and my inclination is more at the level of theory than making fun or useful ordinary AI applications.
Plus, I’m pretty sure that in order to get a really great job at Google I would need my PhD anyway (correct me if I’m wrong, that’s just the sort of impression I got when looking at the options there) and there is no way that my coding skills up to par with what Google expects.
I work at Google and don’t have a PhD :-) But if you’re more interested in basic theory, IBM Research or Microsoft Research would be better choices, IMO. Or just go into academia.