Ask HN: How do you stay on top of advances in AI? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: How do you stay on top of advances in AI?

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Post by d4rkp4ttern » Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 12:50 PM UTC

wanderingmind wrote: post #40

d4rkp4ttern wrote: post #30

AI/ML researcher + builder. Mainly HN and ML subreddit, and a bunch of newsletters. My overarching goal is to completely stay away from Twitter (which I have stopped going to 2 months ago). I instead rely on the above to bubble up interesting things. Also as others said, find something to build and work on and don’t keep looking sideways (aka Twitter, random news), just keep going. It can be discouraging and depressi…

Sorry which ML subreddit do you follow? There are many when I search and most are pretty noisy

Only MachineLearning was worthwhile but now it’s dark. But honestly the signal/noise is far better on HN even for ML related topics.

Re: Ask HN: How do you stay on top of advances in AI?

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Post by mbm » Thu, Jun 15, 2023, 5:50 PM UTC

Fantastic input, thanks all! Extremely helpful.

Re: Ask HN: How do you stay on top of advances in AI?

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Post by quickthrower2 » Fri, Jun 16, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #37

My current thinking is this: * I work full time, not in AI, and don't have tonnes of free time. It is unlikely I will get to even Masters level, let alone PhD, unless something changes drastically. Therefore I don't need to go super deep into papers and suchlike. * On the other hand I want some tactile understanding, so doing Andrej Kaparthy's course. Fiddling with some PyTorch, even if I know my model will be shitti…

Edit: I sounded harsh I think: I love that there are open source LLaMA derivatives, and am grateful people give their time to work on them. I just don't feel I have the capacity to keep up with that, but if they increase their rate of research by 100x and make better stuff than OpenAI I would be happy. At some point I might loop back into this world.