[Der_Einzige]

No, you can definitely publish without a Ph.D. You don't have to work in a research lab.

It's as simple as finding a conference, finding the submission style, writing the paper, submitting, and waiting and praying to the gods of peer review.

Of course, you need to have a good idea, but the fruit in AI is still very low hanging.

[mudrockbestgirl]

I didn't say you cannot publish without a PhD. Rather, it's incredibly difficult to get a position in a good research lab without a PhD due to market forces and competition. Publishing in top venues also requires a certain skillset that's difficult to self-study... and these days it often requires money for running experiments. And if you don't want to get position in a research lab / academia, why would you want to publish at all? Getting those citations for your job is the whole point. Otherwise you can just write blog posts.

[la_fayette]

What is the point of publishing research papers, if not beeing a phd student or professor?

Many ground breaking ideas come from underpaid phd students anyway, e.g., yolo.