2年半升職Google AI團隊必讀11本書

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我花咗兩年半先成功轉行加入Google嘅AI團隊,呢11本書幫我完成轉型

Rahul Kasanagottu,32歲,喺Google做咗客戶工程師,專注於人工智能(AI)同機器學習,佢花咗兩年半時間自我提升,先成功轉去Google嘅AI團隊。佢喺陪產假期間開始閱讀關於AI嘅書籍,透過不斷學習、親身實踐項目同獲得團隊支持,最終完成職業轉型。

Rahul最初喺Google做客戶成功管理嘅工作,但當生成式AI開始興起嘅時候,佢發現自己想投身呢個領域,希望唔係淨係賺錢,而係想影響AI將來點樣被運用。佢女兒喺2023年4月出生,當時AI熱潮亦正開始,Google嘅慷慨陪產假政策令佢有時間陪伴女兒同開始研讀AI書籍。

陪產假雖然幫助咗佢開展呢段學習旅程,但到成功加入AI團隊,佢花咗大約兩年半嘅時間,讀咗11本書,睇咗好多教學影片,並且面試咗四至五個唔同崗位。最終,佢喺六個月前由一名資深技術客戶經理轉職成為Google Cloud專注AI同機器學習嘅客戶工程師,負責開發示範應用同向客戶展示Google嘅AI產品。

Rahul表示,AI產品日日都喺變,佢嘅學習曲線永遠都係持續上升。今日對接嘅客戶可能係一種,明日就會係完全唔同需求嘅客戶,持續學習係必需。

以下係佢讀過覺得最有幫助嘅11本書同課程:

教科書類:
– 《AI Engineering》by Chip Huyen
– 《Designing Machine Learning Systems》by Chip Huyen
– 《Designing Data-Intensive Applications》by Martin Kleppmann
– 《Hands-On Large Language Models》by Jay Alammar and Maarten Grootendorst
– 《Generative AI on AWS》by Chris Fregly, Shelbee Eigenbrode and Anje Barth
– 《Deep Learning》by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

其他相關書籍:
– 《Competing in the Age of AI》by Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
– 《Prediction Machines》by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, and Avi Goldfarb
– 《Power and Prediction》by Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans, Avi Goldfarb
– 《Genesis》by Henry Kissinger, Craig Mundie, and Eric Schmidt
– 《Deep Medicine》by Eric Topol

課程同YouTube頻道:
– Andrew Ng主講嘅《Deep Learning Specialization》
– YouTube頻道3Blue1Brown,專注數學同機器學習基礎嘅視覺化講解

Rahul最欣賞Chip Huyen嘅兩本書,佢用淺白易明嘅方式解釋AI,幫助Rahul理解企業點樣應用AI,令佢認識到自己更鍾意實際應用嘅AI,而唔係純研究。另一啲書如《Power and Prediction》同《Genesis》則提供咗AI經濟規模同未來挑戰嘅宏觀視角。

Andrew Ng嘅課程亦非常幫到手,佢係Google Brain嘅創辦人,教學風格深入淺出。Google嘅企業文化同團隊支持亦係Rahul成功轉型嘅關鍵,喺兼顧工作、學習同照顧新生兒嘅同時,獲得咗經理同同事嘅理解同幫助。

Rahul提醒,單靠讀書唔夠,實際動手做項目好重要。課程有不少實操練習,但書本通常冇,佢後來開始做自己嘅demo項目,用AI工具幫助自己建立履歷,令招聘經理更信服佢有能力做好呢份工。

佢建議想轉行AI嘅人要有耐性,唔好急於半年內求成。機器學習嘅概念複雜,需要時間消化,持續努力同反覆學習係成功關鍵。

評論與啟發

Rahul嘅故事好好反映咗現代職場轉型嘅挑戰與機遇,尤其喺AI迅速發展嘅時代背景下。佢的成功並非一蹴而就,而係長時間持續學習、實踐同獲得支持嘅結果,提醒我哋轉行唔係短期熱潮,而係需要計劃、堅持和資源投入。

尤其值得注意嘅係,陪產假呢個「人生節點」成為佢嘅轉型起點,反映出企業提供人性化福利對員工職涯發展嘅重要影響。Google嘅文化同團隊支持亦係不可忽視嘅助力,顯示企業文化對人才培養同留任嘅關鍵作用。

此外,Rahul強調實操項目嘅必要性,點出AI領域不單靠理論知識,更需要實際能力證明,這對教育機構同職場培訓提出挑戰,應該加強結合理論與實踐嘅課程設計。

最後,佢提醒大家要有耐性,唔好盲目追求快速成功,因為AI嘅學習曲線陡峭,唯有持續累積,才能真正掌握技術並應用自如。呢種心態對任何想轉型或提升技能嘅人都非常重要。

總括而言,Rahul嘅經歷不但啟發咗想轉AI嘅人,更提醒企業需提供靈活支持及培訓資源,創造共贏局面。未來AI人才需求龐大,這種由下而上嘅自我驅動學習,加上企業環境嘅配合,將成為推動科技進步同職場轉型嘅關鍵因素。

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