Getting Started in AI Research - KDnuggets

Focus on research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is nowadays growing more and more every year, particularly in fields such as Deep Learning, Reinforcement Learning and Natural Language Processing (Figure 1). State of the art research in AI is usually carried out in top universities research groups and research-focused companies such as Deep Mind or Open AI, but what if you would like to give your own contribution in your spare time? In this article, we are going to explore different possible approaches you can take in order to be always up to date with the latest in research and how to provide your own contribution. One of the main problems which have affected the AI research field is the possible inability to efficiently reproduce models and results claimed in some publications (Reproducibility Challenge). In fact, many research articles published every year contains just an explanation of the derided topic and model developed but no source code to reproduce their results.