Advice regarding

Just for the sake of anonymity, I have made a new account to ask a really personal question here. I am an active participant of this subreddit in my main reddit account.

I am a MS student in the Artificial Intelligence course. I love doing projects in NLP and computer vision fields, but I feel that I am lacking a feature that might be present in others. My peers and even juniors are out publishing papers and also presenting in conferences. I, on the other side, am more motivated in applying my knowledge to do something, not necessarily novel. Although, it has been increasingly more difficult for me to come up with novel ideas because of the sheer pace at which the research community is going at, publishing stuff. Any idea that I am interested in is already done, and any new angles or improvements I can think of are either done or are just sheer hypothesis.
Need some advice regarding this.