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I want to work in the field of AI. Thing is, I really have no clue what kind of degree I should go for. I originally thought to get a Cognitive Science degree but now, I no longer have any clue about what degree I should be working towards.

Anyone have any advice?

>> No.5014635

You should go into gender science. Once AI becomes self-aware, it'll want to express the gender aspect of its personality and we have to make sure the spectrum of expressions is not cis biased.

>> No.5014639

>>5014635
>Thinks artificial intelligence is human intelligence.
>Thinks any intelligence will have a gender identity, which are based off the human body.

>> No.5014663 [DELETED] 

Spam filter is being lame, so I put my post as an image.

>> No.5014668

Really want to post here, but the spam filter is gay. I'd go with CS because AI will be fundamentally different from human intelligence.

>> No.5014669

Computer science or neuroscience.

>> No.5014680

Comp Sci

>> No.5014693

>>5014639
>can't see a troll when it's two genders in front of his face

>> No.5014696

http://singularityhub.com/2010/10/06/videos-of-robot-controlled-by-rat-brain-amazing-technology-stil
l-moving-forward/

Neuroscience is probably your best bet, or some kind of electrical engineering degree. Or both.

Trying to find something with more science technical-ness to it, but for now you can have this.

>> No.5014703

Comp Sci duh
there's AI courses in CS you know

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>>5014669

Cognitive science includes neuroscience.


>>5014668

I'm assuming you mean computer science. I guess that may be true, but I assumed it would have the same concept at least, right?

>> No.5014720

>>5014703

There is? I never knew anything about that. The counselor here has no idea what AI is, and was therefore shit useless to me. I may end up doing this.

>> No.5014761

Behavioral scientist here.

No one takes cognitive psychology seriously anymore.

Pursue engineering and programming. No one is trying to code for the genetics of learning in computer language, they're trying to code for a learning repertoire. You will find nothing useful in cognitive psychology except what does not and will never work in applied sciences.

>> No.5014829

AI is traditionally in the CS department. The "strong AI" effort to program a human-like intelligence has basically failed, though. It's all statistical now.
http://norvig.com/chomsky.html

The other way to go would be neuroscience, working backwards if you will.

Cog sci gives me the impression of being less rigorous than the other fields. You should look at sample course plans and see how technical it gets.

>> No.5014992

>>5014829
comp sci major here. you're right to a certain margin.

the fact is that knowledge representation and neuroscience even are still young fields, and to try to make an AI that has high intelligence will rely on a lot of abstract math that hasn't been introduced in said fields.

>> No.5015031

Cognitive science and computer science. Major in whichever is more interesting, minor in the other.