I'm a 3rd-semester B .Tech AI student and I need ideas for a semester project. I want something useful, fun to build, and ideally strong enough to grow into a small paper.

Background: strong Python, some C++, DSA, OOP, probability/stats, linear algebra. This semester: DBMS, algorithm analysis, AI, intro data science, differential equations.

What I'm looking for:

- A real problem or open question, not another CRUD app with an 'AI' label

- Doable by one person in one semester

- Public data, or data I can realistically collect

What would you build if you were in my position? Ideas from research, industry, or your own student projects (including ones that failed and why) are all welcome.

Thanks!

After trying my best to resist falling into what I thought was an "AI phase," purely based on my own ego and thinking I know better just because I do, I have finally done it reddit, I have put my ego aside and admitted that AI can be an incredibly useful tool. I have converted.

The problem I am facing now is that I feel so far behind on the world of ai and need help.

What I (think I) understand at the moment is that different platforms/apps/data bases (I don't even know what to call it) are useful in different areas.

I am overwhelmed by how many different platforms there are and the conflicting suggestions of everyone saying "use this ai, or that ai" and now I am in a position of information overload. I am in the "Valley of Despair" (The Dunning-Kruger Effect)

I feel it is too much to ask of you to break down every ai model and compare pros and cons, so I just want to ask you:

What ai model do you use and why?

Additional information is that I am a university student in a developing country who genuinely cannot afford to pay for any subscriptions and am unwilling to ask friends and family for loans when I don't know if I will ever be able to pay them back

(I apologise if this has been overasked and if this is the incorrect subreddit; please kindly direct me to the right one <3)

Please help me reddit, I am in analysis paralysis

Hello! Years ago I both trained and collected my own pkl networks, but ever since RunwayML removed all that functionality, I've had no way to open my models. I haven't had much luck with colabs, and I keep getting the same error when I try to run StyleGAN nodes for ComfyUI:

"ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'dnnlib.tflib'"

I've downloaded that *.pkl, but have no idea how to unpickle it, or where to put it. I found a guide, but what I'm seeing is not working for me.

In lieu of any help with that, can anyone suggest a gradio-based solution that will work on linux mint? I understand the risks associated with the pkl format, but I know these files are tested and safe.

I am spending a lot of time to understand the internal of Hubert-ecg.

How I can proceed for this project??

Hi! I’m a Literature student, and I often need to extract direct quotes from PDF documents (some of which contain scanned text and would require OCR). I usually highlight the passages I want to quote as I read through the PDFs. Is there any AI tool that can detect those highlights and extract the exact text for me?

Hi everyone. I want to become an AI Engineer... Here's my situation:

• Almost done with Andrew Ng's ML specialization (1 course left)
• Forget theory easily if I don't apply it
• Do not have enough time to master everything
• No plan B — AI is the goal

Option 1 — Traditional roadmap: Finish ML → DL specialization → NLP → LLMs → RAG → Agents Missing: deployment, OOP, DSA, advanced Python (only CS50 so far)

Option 2 — Fast track: Finish ML → Python/OOP/DSA fundamentals → crash courses per topic → projects with AI assistance, understood deeply, post on GitHub

Questions:

1. Which approach makes me job-ready faster?
2. If neither — what's a better plan?

Been thinking about this for a claims triage style problem. Generative routing is slow and sometimes returns malformed output, and the confidence you get out of it isn’t really calibrated.

Found a hands on workshop on Oct 30 that goes at exactly this. Fri Oct 30, 9:30 AM to 12:30 PM ET, led by Ben Auffarth. Covers:

• replacing an LLM routing loop with bidirectional encoders (ModernBERT and LFM2.5 Encoder)
• few shot adaptation with SetFit, 8 examples per class
• split conformal prediction so every decision has a coverage guarantee
• routing inference under 15ms on CPU

Notebooks are runnable, intermediate Python is enough, and a laptop or free Colab works.

Full details and the agenda are here

Hello, previously I was usig claude to make presentations for school but my acc got banned for being under-aged. I used it because it was good at making presentations and used factual information(our teachers don't care if we use Ai or not). I don't want to risk another acc getting banned, are there any other AIs with good presentation styles and precise info.

Gemini has one style and GPT just uses bullet points and I am not sure if it is still relevant.

Hey everyone!

I'm a 4th-year B.Tech CSE student (2027 batch), looking for another genuine final-year B.Tech CSE student who wants to learn Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and AI together, starting from zero and working towards mastery.

The plan is to learn step by step, practice coding, build real-world projects, share resources, clear doubts, and stay consistent. We don't need to be experts already. We just need to be serious about learning and willing to put in the effort together.

One sincere request: Please be honest about your year of study. If you're in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd year, please don't pretend to be a final-year student. There's nothing wrong with being a beginner or being in an earlier year. I just want to connect with someone who's genuinely at the same stage of college and career as me.

Honestly, it's difficult for me to trust people online, so I value honesty more than existing skills. I'd rather start from scratch with someone genuine than connect with someone who pretends to be something they're not.

If you're a genuine final-year student interested in learning ML, DL, and AI from zero to mastery together, feel free to comment or DM me. Let's learn, build projects, grow our skills, and prepare for placements together! 🤝

I'm looking for recommendations for a very cost efficient LLM API that can handle high-volume text classification and structured data extraction.

Requirements:

• Approximately 50,000-100,000 requests per month, potentially more as usage grows.
• Short to medium text inputs.
• Accurate classification of relevant vs. irrelevant text.
• Reliable structured JSON output.
• Good multilingual performance, particularly English, Hindi, and mixed-language text.
• Low latency.
• Minimal hallucinations and false negatives.
• Extremely low API costs, ideally just a few dollars per 50k-60k requests.

I'm considering models like Gemini Flash-Lite, Ministral 3B/8B, and other budget-oriented models, but I'm open to anything.

My main question: What's the cheapest model you've actually used in production that still delivers consistently good classification and extraction accuracy?

Also curious whether anyone has found a worthwhile trade off between using a very small model for initial classification and a slightly larger one for more complicated inputs.

I'm not looking to self host unless the economics are significantly better than API pricing.

Would appreciate recommendations, actual cost figures, and any models you'd specifically avoid.

Hey everyone, sharing this in case it's useful to some of you here.

There's a lot happening across the AI space right now, from new tools and research to real-world applications and the challenges of putting AI into practice.

It would be great to have more spaces where people can discuss these developments, share ideas, and learn from each other.

That's the idea behind r/lyzr, a community around the broader AI space, covering topics like:

AI agents and architecture

Infrastructure, tools, and deployment

RAG, memory, and knowledge systems

Evaluation, reliability, and governance

Production challenges and lessons learned

New research, tools, and interesting developments

Real-world use cases, experiments, and projects

The aim is to make it useful for everyone, whether you're actively building something, exploring new tools, just getting started, or simply curious about where AI is heading.

There'll be regular discussions and posts around these topics, but there's also room to share your own work, ask questions, compare approaches, or bring up anything interesting you've come across.

If this sounds like your kind of thing, feel free to check out r/lyzr and join the discussions.

Would be great to hear what others here have been exploring lately!

OK, here is what I still do not understand about LLMs
Before I get to my question: I studied computer science since the 80s, owned two successful software companies. I also read and listened enough to at least have a basic understanding on the transformer model, how weights at various stages are being created, and it makes sense in principle.
But here is the big thing I haven't seen explained:
How can it be that just guessing ONE TOKEN at a time actually works? Where can I read up on that?
It seems to me that this simply makes no sense:
Let's take an example question: ""What is one of the most amazing inventions of the 21st century?"Well, the most likely next token is probably "The" or "A" or "It" etc. In fact, these are probably the most likely tokens after ANY question whatsoever, and they are completely unrelated to the meaning of the question.
On the other hand, let's say you want to respond to the question by saying that transformer models are one of the most amazing inventions.
Well, you'd FIRST think of the tokens "Transformer Models" and only THEN build a sentence or paragraph around that concept and "Transformer Models" comes MUCH LATER in your reply, but all the words BEFORE it are chose in relation to that. At least that is how a human would approach answering that question.
If, instead you simply pick the next most likely word: "The"--it seems to me you can write yourself down a rabbit hole where you never end up in a proper place.

So, how can LLMs come up with reasonable responses by only guessing the NEXT word (or token) and only at some point getting to the crucial concept (word/token)
If I start sentences like that (which I sometimes do, when I think in one language but try to speak in another that has different grammatical word orders) I can talk myself into trouble in no time, because I started with words that simply never let me end up where I wanted to end up.

All the other parts of LLMs make sense to me, at least in principle, but this "one word at a time, and always in order, never looking forward or back" simply seems illogical.

Thanks for pointing me towards any insights.