Matsuoka Shuzo [松岡修造 ] - あきらめかけているあなた (NEVER GIVE UP!!) [English]

The consequence of all this: Websites, apps and advertisers providing consumers with everything from news, games and consumer goods make less money selling ads and have to fork over more money to exchanges and other intermediaries. According to industry studies, ad intermediaries take 30 to 50 percent of every trade. In other words, when your local gym buys $1,000 worth of advertising on a local news site, the exchanges and other industry players can take $500 of that, leaving websites and apps with just half. Who pays the price? Again, the consumer, through things like more expensive gym memberships and news subscriptions. Thank you so so so much, Ms. Srinivasan! You are very courageous for fighting a Goliath! Keep fighting the good fight! And in case you need more cheering up, here's something else: [this video]

I'm very adamant that if you really want to be an AI researcher, it starts with the mathematics. Multi-variable calculus, linear algebra,discrete math, probability and statistics are key. The classic books and courses others have suggested are excellent starting points. I'll also say something here that isn't established, so I may take some heat. I believe there are two main paths in AI that will eventually converge to general AI: symbolic and sub-symbolic reasoning. If you go the path of symbolic reasoning, studying functional programming, theory of computation,type theory, natural language processing/compilers are in your future. If you go the path of sub-symbolic reasoning, you will be closer to optimization methods, neural networks, etc. It really depends on what you want to do. Ex: Computer vision is all about sub-symbolic reasoning, while natural language processing is heavily about symbolic reasoning. Of course advanced applications mix both! If you want to go after general AI, you gotta figure out how to tackle both forms of reasoning. In the end, if you are serious about being an AI researcher, you will have to be a great computer scientist and mathematician. This is why it seems so difficult to get into. "Do I focus on working on messing with libraries and algorithms or the mathematical theory? And if I do both, how!?" It's not easy, but just start and keep going. Others have provided great advice. One of my greatest joys in life has been coming to understand the ma