PhD

“There are a lot of researchers who just started out without formal training in machine learning or AI research. We've very much believed in training people up to do this. I think the real hard thing is the ability to creatively solve problems and think outside…”

“We have, you know, more PhDs. 500,000 of them use Handshake than any other platform. We have three million master's students who are, you know, in-school or alumni.”

“If all you're kind of doing is throwing PhDs as a problem, all you're doing is teaching models how to hack Silly benchmarks and get good at basically the equivalent of SAT problems.”

“We're kind of at that level where we're currently hiring PhDs to teach the model in their specific domain.”

“Certain Chinese companies paying 1.2 million dollar salaries for PhDs.”

“Especially a PhD student is one of the worst Jobs you can go for in a time when AI is so hot and so highly paid and you can do a startup or join a startup.”

“I think it's best to not go to PhD right after undergrad and kind of like spend at least like couple of years in industry. I think that goes to my point to me, like the best researchers are those who can, who are also very good engineers.”

“By the way people who got, you know, professors a hundred years ago, like how would they score the PhDs that are being granted today? Would they say, well, the bar is higher? Or would they say the bar is lower? I think they would say the bar is dramatically lo…”

“It's really sort of the most useless topic you can probably get your PhD in.”

“Some yes, but mostly not.”

“The amount of PhDs, granted, keeps going up, but the amount of faculty positions has been flat.”

“I feel like the people who I've seen hired in as PhDs often have a sense of entitlement about their, how much they're going to have to be able to work on their own problems at the exclusion of the needs of the company.”