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Most places I know hiring PhDs to do AI/ML are hiring people with phds in a non-AI/ML field. Why? Because it is a lot easier to teach someone how to string toge
by mnky9800n 4y ago
Most places I know hiring PhDs to do AI/ML are hiring people with phds in a non-AI/ML field. Why? Because it is a lot easier to teach someone how to string together pytorch or tensorflow or whatever codes then it is to teach them physics, hydrology, sociology, etc. Certainly this is how my company hires.
- wittycardio 4y agoI think it's more likely because PhDs in AI/Ml are extremely expensive to hire. A PhD in AI generally does more than string together pytorch and tensorflow.
- drdunce 4y agoMaybe in US? PhD AI/ML hire in UK is ~£33k salary.
- wittycardio 4y agoAn AI PhD from a reasonable university will easily make 200k + at SV companies
- mnky9800n 4y agoDoing what?
- wittycardio 4y agoDoing machine learning or data science
- drdunce 4y agoAgain, in US? I'm from a Russell Group uni, so are friends. Most I've heard of is 37 from a friend that spent over 3 months applying and did some hard negotiating. Can you give some example companies hiring with this salary in UK? I'd be genuinely interested, as I believe would many friends/colleagues.
- wittycardio 4y agoIn the US, though I imagine DeepMind and FAIR pay a lot more than 37k pounds in the UK too
- drdunce 4y agoI don't think it's quite 200k and I wouldn't describe getting into DeepMind as easy
- wittycardio 4y agoDon't think it's easy but yeah those are the kinds of places that would pay 200k in the US