[mnky9800n]

Most places I know hiring PhDs to do AI/ML are hiring people with phds in a non-AI/ML field. Why? Because it is a lot easier to teach someone how to string together pytorch or tensorflow or whatever codes then it is to teach them physics, hydrology, sociology, etc. Certainly this is how my company hires.

[wittycardio]

I think it's more likely because PhDs in AI/Ml are extremely expensive to hire. A PhD in AI generally does more than string together pytorch and tensorflow.

[drdunce]

Maybe in US? PhD AI/ML hire in UK is ~£33k salary.

[wittycardio]

An AI PhD from a reasonable university will easily make 200k + at SV companies

[drdunce]

Again, in US? I'm from a Russell Group uni, so are friends. Most I've heard of is 37 from a friend that spent over 3 months applying and did some hard negotiating. Can you give some example companies hiring with this salary in UK? I'd be genuinely interested, as I believe would many friends/colleagues.

[wittycardio]

In the US, though I imagine DeepMind and FAIR pay a lot more than 37k pounds in the UK too

[drdunce]

I don't think it's quite 200k and I wouldn't describe getting into DeepMind as easy

[mnky9800n]

Doing what?

[wittycardio]

Doing machine learning or data science