Kudos to the author for sticking with it, and making a contribution to the field. His persistence will serve him well in his Ph.D. (provided he gets in this rou

Kudos to the author for sticking with it, and making a contribution to the field. His persistence will serve him well in his Ph.D. (provided he gets in this round). He's also right that AI/ML is particularly competitive for PhD admissions. I'd venture to say that a CS PhD in AI is probably the most sought after credential in the world right now (compared to a MBA or MD), and one that each university can only absorb a few new students per year. I'm chairing phd admissions at Brown CS, and see more than a third of all PhD applications being AI related. So our AI-related faculty are able to be very very selective.