Hi,
I'm the artsy, alternative-looking, quiet-kid type. The archetype everyone knows. The unusual thing about me is that I really hate the language-arts kind of stuff - writing, reading, poetry, essays, all the things people in humanities do. But, I LOVE STEM subjects. Math, computer science, physics, astronomy, engineering...
Recently, I got accepted into AI major for college. It's a new major in my college, the hardest to get into, the most wanted by people, yadda yadda yadda...
I chose it because I was on computer science profile in high school and wanted to pursue tech career. AI is something that fascinates and scares me a lot, so why not go for it? Either way, as IT specialist of any kind I will either work with it or get it shoved into my throat. So I chose to work with it. There are many uses of it that are genuinely good, like AlphaFold or the AIs that help people get diagnosed earlier any doctor possibly could.
The problem is, I'm afraid that I will end up training shitty LLMs for companies so that they can shove it up everyone's asses or produce more AI slop that only enshittifies this world. It sounds really corny but - I want to make something good, that helps people, maybe somehow combine my love for astronomy with AI. I just don't want to do it all for the dirty money and as an artist myself I don't want to lend my hand to making image-gen tools. I want to change the world even slightly for the better.
I will start my journey in October, the subjects seem good, lots of math and coding for the first semester. I will probably try to join the astronomy science club... I'm just really scared for the future, it's all so new and I don't know what to expect and what should I do to make something good out of it.
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