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Recently, foreign media interviewed a group of college students and professors from famous American universities. The results show that the entry of college graduates into technology companies has become the mainstream.

When AI is hot, people who engage in AI are hot.

Well, according to a recent interview with Insider, technology companies are robbing people from strong schools such as Stanford, MIT and Cornell University.

All the college students engaged in the AI program have become popular.

In fact, not only these majors are popular with college students, but these technology companies are also popular with college students.

Good pay, good prospects, good company atmosphere, why not go.

One of the students interviewed said, "Tesla's activity is really attractive and they put a lot of energy into it." "

Two-way match? From the students' point of view, every period of time, basically for a period of ten years, will usher in some technical turning point. So college students will flock to hot industries.

In the network era, countless college students have poured into the computer major. In the era of Web3, countless college students choose to take courses in cryptocurrency and blockchain.

Today, there is no doubt that it belongs to AI. A large number of college students rushed to AI-related majors, hoping to embrace the blue ocean of AI market as soon as possible and become the first batch of people to keep pace with the development of AI.

In an interview with Insider, more than a dozen university professors, students, fresh graduates and industry experts said that as more and more companies compete for dominance in the AI market, they are also paying more attention to university campuses.

From the company's point of view, they do everything possible to attract excellent college students.

In the job advertisement, the company promised college students high salaries, opportunities to work with top people in the industry, and sufficient resources to promote research.

Behind so many generous conditions is the upsurge of joining technology companies, while the enrollment rate of AI doctoral students in some universities has declined.

The head of the Department of Computing and Information Science at Cornell University says the student population is getting smaller. It is necessary for many students to think deeply about whether they should give up the deep cultivation of academia and turn to Silicon Valley for a place.

Attaluri, a master of engineering at MIT, said job postings poured in as soon as the fall semester began. Within a few months, she had locked in on DeepMind's job.

The same is true of many students at DeepMind Cornell University. As soon as they return to school at the end of the summer vacation, they take part in the fall recruitment non-stop and join the staff next spring.

However, those who insist on continuing their doctoral studies are just more calm. The professional knowledge they learned at the graduate level is more favored by headhunters.

A professor in the computer science department at Cornell University says these doctoral students receive all kinds of job postings throughout their PhD period, but they can resist the temptation.

The same is true of doctoral students at Stanford University, who often receive Offer from startups or other technology companies urging them to drop out and join the workforce.

Moonhub's CEO says he has just retired from Stanford's Dr. AI program to concentrate on Moonhub.

Some companies are so eager to have graduate students to join them that they even offer flexible working conditions-- they can go to school while working part-time.

Part-time pay can reach $350000 a year, not to mention full-time, almost $500000 a year.

According to the 2023AI Index of the AI Institute at Stanford University's Human Center, twice as many AI graduates will work for companies in 2021 as they continue to do research in academia.

But high salary is only one of the factors.

Some professors and students say they think working in a company will give them better access to real-world research.

The technology trend never stops, but if we delve into the underlying reasons why technology companies recruit a wide range of talents, they often do not focus on promoting technological development, but just want to keep up with the trend for fear of being lagged too far behind by other companies.

For example, after ChatGPT came out, all basic technology companies began to build their own models, for fear that they would be slow step by step, and everyone would be busy handing in their papers for fear of being left on the beach by the times.

Other companies have found another way to develop their own applications with the high performance of third-party large language models such as GPT-4.

In a survey, researchers found that the biggest talent shortages in nine industries, including banking, insurance, government and retail, are in the direction of AI and deep learning.

Last year, MIT added an AI and decision-making major, Harvard University opened a new institution to study AI (funded by Meta founder Zuckerberg and his wife), and Cornell University opened two new AI-related minor courses.

A student majoring in CS and AI at Stanford University said he had observed that his classmates were becoming more interested in AI. They set up new start-up clubs or chat rooms and actively participate in the school's natural language processing courses.

Finally, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University says that when the AI program started four years ago, most jobs were for master's or doctoral students. But now, with the expansion of the technology trend, more and more courses are entering the undergraduate stage, and more recruitment companies are opening recruitment opportunities to undergraduates.

At the end of the interview, Eyzaguirre said, "I am still in my second year of doctorate. I haven't decided whether I will go to work in the company or continue to take root in academia after graduation. "

Reference:

Https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-companies-raid-top-university-campuses-rare-artificial-intelligence-talent-2023-4

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era)

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