I’m a Korean who just graduated from business school. It was definitely a great course, and I feel really lucky to have found NG. I’ve completed 3/5 courses in the DLS
At the same time, though, I have to start looking for a job.and honestly… I’m a little scared. I know that no matter what we do, AI will probably do it better, and there’s just so much more to learn and do beyond DLS.
Also, since I’m writing this at night(…) I might be feeling a bit sentimental, but I can’t help wondering if all this effort I’m putting into DLS will really be worth it in the long run.
If you don’t mind, I’d love to hear your thoughts and get some step-by-step advice on what I should do next whether I finish DLS or not.
It’s an important question, of course, but not one that is easy to answer on several levels. For starters, it depends a lot on what your plan for your career is. If you’re a B-school grad who is going into some form of management, then it’s not clear any of DLS is really relevant to what you’ll be doing in your job: you may well be applying existing DL/ML technology in your job, but you only need to know how to apply it, not to build it yourself. DLS is primarily intended for people who want to build DL systems to solve new problems. Of course even if you’re only intending to use the technology, it’s always good to have strong intuitions about what the technology is good for and you definitely get that kind of intuition from taking DLS.
If your plan is more in the direction of developing AI/ML/DL applications of some form, then you definitely should continue with DLS. C4 and C5 cover ConvNets and Sequence Models. As you probably already know, ConvNets are fundamental to any applications involving image processing or computer vision among other things. Sequence Models introduces you to the technology that NLP in general and LLMs in particular are based on.
The other high level question is what the job market looks like for the type of job you are seeking. What requirements will they have for the amount of knowledge you have about DL/ML? Sorry, but I am completely unqualified to help on that, even here in the US, let alone in other countries. And of course it would require more details about your goals, but we’d have to hope that there are other folks listening who know more about various job markets than I do.
thanks for your advice. I think, i’m interested more interested in applying machine learning to various places. I could become a Product manager or like to combine my major in management with ML to provide consulting on ‘how to better apply machine learning to the company’s products or production processes’, but it seems pretty vague.
Honestly, I see a lot of opportunities. Not from a job market perspective, but from a product application perspective. Of course, this may be a beginner’s presumption.
rather than thinking too far ahead, I’ll focus on what’s right in front of me. I think setting a ‘short term-purpose of life’ repeatedly works pretty well.