AI researchers are in high demand, with some offered billion-dollar compensation packages from Meta amid the ongoing AI talent wars.
However, one AI pioneer, Jad Tarifi, who founded Google’s first generative AI team after obtaining a Ph.D. in AI, would not recommend higher study to break into the field.
In a new interview with Business Insider, Tarifi, 42, predicted that within the five to seven years it takes to obtain a Ph.D., most of AI’s problems will be solved.
“Even things like applying AI to robotics will be solved by then,” Tarifi told BI.
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