A PhD in deep learning could get you a job with comparable salary (or way more if you moved outside of Germany). That said, there is always the risk that the s

A PhD in deep learning could get you a job with comparable salary (or way more if you moved outside of Germany). That said, there is always the risk that the space gets crowded, or research gets too expensive, or innovation slows down. I think this is particularly risky in vision-related AI. I personally was going to go for a financial mathematics degree, cause that was interesting and lucrative in 2006. That field almost doesn't exist anymore...