[a_n]

wow, i just saw you on 3b1b's video on neural networks, where you were talking about relu v sigmoid... this is pretty cool, i hope to do something like this after high school:) all the best

[lishali88]

Thanks for stopping by! That was a fun video to be a part of, Grant’s math videos in general are so well done. I think this video was from 2017. Funny thing is that even back in 2014/2015, which is when I officially changed my PhD from pure math to AI, I had the fear that it was a little late (was originally from Toronto where neural nets were worked on my Hinton and his students —-Ilya, James…etc….so I felt like I had my chance to join much earlier and missed it). Only after 2012 did we start to see super human performance of AI in some tasks (namely, at first, classification). It was the Lee Sedol match with AlphaGo that convinced me that the field became a lot more interesting after I got to Berkeley (and also the generative stuff coming out early days from Alyosha’s lab and Deep RL stuff from Pieter’s).

But look at the world now! It’s never too late, jump in and build if you are excited now!