"Don't do your thesis creating AI software, AI is basically just optimization and wont be applicable to many industries." Thesis advisor, 2009

Just curious, were you considering doing a thesis on neural nets ?

@xecute honestly i wasnt decided on what to use just wanted to move from hpc into actually using hpc. Actually not sure if i knew about n net or not at the time. I ended up using genetic algorithm optimization but i wouldnt consider that ai

Well he was right about the first part, all the "AI" we've got is pretty weak (pun intended) and basically an optimization form. The second half, not so much...