With the advent of LLMs, multimodality and “general purpose” AIs which seat on unimaginable amounts money, computing power and data. I’m graduating and want to start a PHD, but feel quite disheartened given the huge results obtained simply by “brute-forcing” and by the ever-growing hype in machine learning that could result in a bubble of data scientists, ML researchers and so on.
I think the future will be about applying deep learning to all different domains to boost the advancement of humanity so being a ML researchers or startup still has a lot of potential.
The most important thing is not to be afraid of applying deep learning to different domains and simply try it out.