Undergraduate research at other universities

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Hello,

You guys were very helpful on my last thread so I thought I would post another one. Yesterday I decided I wanted to work on artificial intelligence in grad school. My friend told me that since I have no experience in AI I should try to find a part-time research position for the academic year.

There are only about two professors who do AI at my school (Caltech). If I can't work with one of them, should I work with someone in a different subfield of CS, or email professors at other schools and ask to work remotely? MIT, for example, has a much larger department.

Thanks!