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Of the 5-10k CS professors out there , only a fraction are researching AI. There are postdocs, grad students, undergrad researchers. Students are not likely
by codeonfire 9y ago
Of the 5-10k CS professors out there , only a fraction are researching AI. There are postdocs, grad students, undergrad researchers. Students are not likely to make any ground breaking discoveries. So yeah, under 10k sounds reasonable. CS is not as big as some people think. There have been less than 50k CS pHd's conferred in all human history and less than 500k master degrees.
With AI though, the jobs probably pay $300-500k per year, so there are going to be a lot of people flat out lying about credentials and abilities.
And some people's idea of "research" is running scripts against Azure, AWS, or some grad student's thesis code. "Research" most likely does not involve a large amount of computing.
- somethingsimple 9y ago> There have been less than 50k CS pHd's conferred in all human history and less than 500k master degrees. Do you have a source for those figures?
- codeonfire 9y agohttps://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_324.10.asp?current=yes https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_324.10.a... https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_323.10.asp?current=yes https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d16/tables/dt16_323.10.a... This is US only and not for all years.
- somethingsimple 9y agoThanks!
- mindcrime 9y agoOf the 5-10k CS professors out there , only a fraction are researching AI. There are postdocs, grad students, undergrad researchers. Students are not likely to make any ground breaking discoveries. So yeah, under 10k sounds reasonable. What about people working in private industry, as opposed to academia?