<p>Hi. I've been posting on these forums for quite some time, and have gotten excellent advice. So I am counting on you guys again.</p>
<p>I did a siemens westinghouse project as a junior. I didn't make it. Here is my abstract:</p>
<p>This paper discusses a novel approach to the development and evolution of connections that form between neurons in the brain and the emergence of intelligence, as well as the construction of a simulation designed to test these ideas, with a heavy emphasis on the runtime analysis of the simulation. The concepts and methods proposed in this paper contribute to the disciplines of artificial intelligence and neuroscience, with strong ties to the cognitive development of the human infant.
The simulation consists of a virtual species that learns to adapt to a hostile, dynamic and evolving environment, with members of the species differentiated only by their intellectual abilities. The brain of a member of this species is composed of two neural networks: the prediction network, a recurrent neural network that employs a derivative of the standard back propagation algorithm, and a situation analysis, a feed forward neural network trained by a periodically run genetic algorithm, enabling the evolution of the species. Together, the two networks generate a large look-ahead tree, and evaluate it.
The most recent results of this simulation support the runtime analysis presented, suggesting the strong dependencies of the discipline of artificial intelligence on the hardware advances in coming years.</p>
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<p>obviously, anyone with knowledge in Comp Sci can see I don't actually have results.</p>
<p>The reason I am posting this here is because I am confused about the research fields I am interested in. I am interested in chemistry and physics, but enjoy computer science a lot.</p>
<p>I enjoyed the whole research process, and writing the paper, but honestly, I am very sick of this project, which is so large. I just don't think a one man army is going to be able to pull it off. I envy the bio and chem kids(a lot who won from my school) who have lots of data they can analyze, with so many applications. I don't know if Artificial Intelligence is a field that a highschooler should persue. I mean, if you think about it, anyone who did groundbreaking work in designing AI would be very famous, but what are the chances I'm going to pull it off? </p>
<p>What do you guys think? I would really appreciate some great advice now of all times. Thanks.</p>