Practicing AI research — Jason Wei
I’m not a particularly experienced researcher (despite my title being “Senior” Research Scientist), but I’ve worked with some talented collaborators and spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to do research, so I thought I might write about how I go about it. My perspective is this: doing
Practicing AI research Feb 7 Written By Jason Wei I’m not a particularly experienced researcher (despite my title being “Senior” Research Scientist), but I’ve worked with some talented collaborators and spent a fair amount of time thinking about how to do research, so I thought I might write about how I go about it. My perspective is this: doing research is a skill that can be learned through practice, much like sports or music. The way I decompose research is into four skills: (1) idea conception and selection, (2) experiment design and execution, (3) writing the paper, and (4) maximizing imp
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