This AI Boom Will Also Bust

Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by whorleater on Saturday December 03, 2016 @11:52AM (#13096361)

I don't actually think that's true, if the "AI bubble" bursts at some point in the near future, the people who'll be in trouble with be those without formal education to back them up.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by toomuchtodo on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:05PM (#13096425)

> the people who'll be in trouble with be those without formal education to back them up.

The people who can't hack it are those who'll be in trouble. Tech has never much been the place where credentials are necessary.

Don't specialize and saddle yourself with years of college debt if you're unsure of the field's long term prospects.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by nwjtkjn on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:35PM (#13096553)

FWIW, one does not accrue debt doing a PhD in something like Machine Learning.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by toomuchtodo on Saturday December 03, 2016 @01:14PM (#13096725)

Depending on the program, possibly. But a PhD is not required to learn nor work in machine learning.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by randcraw on Sunday December 04, 2016 @01:45AM (#13099063)

The debt incurred in a wasted PhD is not monetary; it's lost time.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by robotresearcher on Saturday December 03, 2016 @02:27PM (#13097095)

Almost every good place pays their CS PhD students enough to squeak by without getting into debt. I wish this was more widely known.

And companies like Google are pretty keen on academic credentials. They've assembled what must be one of the largest collections of PhDs in history.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by komaromy on Saturday December 03, 2016 @03:45PM (#13097422)

> Almost every good place pays their CS PhD students enough to squeak by without getting into debt. I wish this was more widely known.

Right. The debt problems that people have after PhDs are more often due to their undergrad loans sitting around for 4-7 years while they were earning enough to subsist and not more.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by rampage101 on Saturday December 03, 2016 @04:44PM (#13097665)

Depends where you live. In the USA credentials matter a lot... in Europe or else where they could care less if you studied somewhere.

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Re:This AI Boom Will Also Bust by nilved on Saturday December 03, 2016 @12:29PM (#13096522)

That's never really been how the industry works. Experience is more valuable than education, so you should get experience while you still can.

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