PhD Programs
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
WTF is with Nikhil Kamath 
Big Technology 
TBPN
3 statements about PhD Programs, every show
Roy: AI labs are starving academic PhD programs of talent
“The labs are starving PhD programs of talent. So like now actually that really kind of foundational research moves only towards the labs away from universities and kind of more traditional research”
Much AI reinforcement learning research focuses on difficult math problems
“A lot of the reinforcement learning is now done on like extremely hard math problems. And so you might need to go to PhD programs to recruit.”
AI entrepreneurs should pursue a PhD or master's degree to learn deeply
“You still want to do a PhD if you're an entrepreneur, or at least a masters, because you want to really sort of learn deep. I mean, you might be doing this by yourself. You don't have to, but it's useful because you learn more about, you know, what exists out …”