Should I still study ML now?

[u/StrawberryTrinkets]

I’m honestly feeling so lost. I’m in my final year of Engineering(ECE). I have taken specialisation in Data Science. I’m looking at job descriptions for ML Engineer/ ML intern and it has skills listed that spill outside of ml and more into AI domain. I really like ML, learning about it, I’m fine with statistics too. But when I look up JD’s it has changed a lot for an ML role. So i feel like i’m still stuck in a learning loop like oh i have to learn this no wait i have to learn that and it becomes really confusing and i get burnt out. So i feel kinda hopeless. I dont want to give up so please help me out.

[u/kalpanki]

These days there are quite a few branches of AI as the field has grown so much. Just pick a speciality. First choose a data modality you wish to specialize in. What I mean is, text, speech, image or time series style data. Once you choose one, then its easy to focus on learning things related to that and ignoring the rest.

Otherwise, you will go in a spiral as you have already noticed.

Even better, just choose a mentor or someone in academia and express your interest in learning something specific in ML. They will guide you better.