问HN：对人工智能感到厌倦——有什么替代方案？
你好，HN，
从小我就对机器学习和深度学习产生了浓厚的兴趣。目前我在加拿大多伦多的计算机科学本科专业读二年级，已经在行业中积累了近两年的经验（计算机视觉和自然语言处理），同时在学术界也有超过一年的全职人工智能研究经历。此外，我有不少开源项目（全部与深度学习相关），总共获得了超过1000个星标，其中一些在各自的领域内非常知名。然而，最近我感觉这个领域已经饱和，每天都有新的研究成果发布，作为一名人工智能开发者，我觉得自己不过是机器中的一个齿轮。我理解所有领域在某种程度上都受到这种现象的影响，但在人工智能领域，我的工作完全没有个人色彩，反而让我觉得自己像一个机器人，训练视觉变换器进行分类，微调大型语言模型以处理特定类型的文档，进行架构调整以实现微小的性能提升，等等。
你能建议我考虑计算机科学中的哪些替代方向吗？我有两个主要优先考虑的方面：
* 创造力：我并不想寻找典型的软件开发职位，比如全栈开发者。相反，我对那些需要创造力的机会感兴趣，几乎像是在解谜一样，并且不会在一段时间后变得“例行公事”。
* 行业：我的目标是进入行业，而不是学术界。这并不是因为我不喜欢研究（事实上，我更喜欢研究而非应用工作），但尽管我不情愿承认，薪资确实在我的决策中起着一定作用，我的目标是六位数的收入。
举个具体的例子：我热爱逻辑、编程语言研究、理论计算机科学等工作，因为这些都满足我的第一个标准，但遗憾的是，似乎就业机会大多局限于学术界？
我非常感谢你的想法和反馈。
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Hello HN,<p>Since a young age, I've been interested in machine and deep learning. I’m currently in the second year of my Computer Science BSc (Toronto, Canada) and already have almost 2 years of experience in industry (computer vision + NLP) and over a year in academia doing AI research (both full time). Additionally, I have quite a few open-source projects (all DL-related) that have garnered over 1,000 stars in total, and some are very well-known in their respective niches. Lately though, I'm getting the impression that the field is over-saturated, with new research being published on a daily basis, and I identify as nothing but a cog in the machine as an AI developer. I understand that all domains are affected by this phenomenon to some degree, but in AI in particular, my work doesn’t feel personal at all, and to myself, I ironically seem like a robot that trains a vision transformer to do classification, fine-tunes an LLM for certain types of documents, makes architectural changes for a tiny improvement in performance, etc.<p>What are alternative branches in CS that you suggest I consider? I have two chief priorities:<p>* Creativity: I'm not seeking a typical software development job such as full-stack developer. Instead, I'm interested in opportunities that require creativity, almost like puzzle solving, and don’t become “routine” after a while.
* Industry: My goal is to work in industry, not academia. This is not because I don’t enjoy research (in fact, I prefer it to applied work), but as reluctant as I am to admit it, salary does play a role in my decision making, and I’m aiming for six figures.<p>To give you a concrete example: I love work in logic, programming language research, theoretical computer science, and so on because they satisfy my first criterion, but it sadly appears that employment opportunities are mostly confined to academia?<p>I really appreciate your thoughts and feedback.