singapore-tech-internships VS awesome-ai-residency

Also, this may be a personal opinion but TalentConnect is not great. I'm aware many companies don't actively care about their TalentConnect pipeline and instead only use TalentConnect to help their confirmed interns register their internship with NUS (source: two previous internship HRs told me this). That doesn't mean it's useless, but do find other sources for internship postings. There's some lists of internship roles like this one on Github: otherwise, just using LinkedIn's job search for "software engineer intern" works pretty well.

For bachelors, AI residency programs may be a good (though competitive) choice. https://github.com/dangkhoasdc/awesome-ai-residency

MSCS students are not expected to do independent research at GT. They are expected to assist Ph.D. students. This reflects poorly when applying for graduate school. Therefore, you **must** go for a pre-doc program instead of GT. List - https://github.com/dangkhoasdc/awesome-ai-residency

Usually in order to be an intern at a big company, they would ask for some proof that you are still a student (but I would check it with the company). Maybe a one year AI residency would be more suitable in your case (https://github.com/dangkhoasdc/awesome-ai-residency)

There are specific programs for people like you: AI residencies. These are intended as fast-track programs to get people from other fields up to speed in AI research. I have no personal experience with them though, and would expect the application process to be extremely competitive. Essentially all of the large AI players have such programs: Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, NVidia, Intel, IBM, Facebook... just google (or duckduckgo) "AI residency + [company name]". They all have different entry requirements / preferred qualifications. Check out, e.g., this guidance. Here is another residency link list and here are some pointers on how to prepare for an application.