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There’s an AI ‘brain drain’ in academia
Data from various surveys show that there's an exodus in academia where it concerns top AI talent — and where they end up.
As one might expect, lots of students who graduate with a doctorate in an AI-related field end up joining an AI company, whether a startup or big tech giant. A 2019 survey co-authored by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing found that close to 100 AI faculty members left North American universities for industry jobs between 2018 to 2019 — a outsized cohort in the context of a specialized computer science field. Between 2004 and 2019, Carnegie Mellon alone saw 16 AI faculty members depart, and the Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Washington lost roughly a dozen each, the study found.
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