Met a Meta AI researcher.
He studied Physics in China, came to the US for a PhD in Physics, and then fell in love with AI, despite never having studied computer science.
He watched Andrej Karpathy and Andrew Ng, bought a GPU, read every arXiv paper title daily, and dived into the ones that interested him. Eventually, he published a few first-author papers at top AI conferences without any supervisors, and later transferred to his university’s AI lab.
You can just do things.