Beautiful. Now if only someone would top you and get to work as an ML researcher at a top lab without a PhD. Bonus points if they have no degree at all. The last person I recall doing something like that was Freeman Dyson.
Does the industry route count? Many people in private labs (Google, OpenAI, etc.) got there the private route without school. That was actually going to be my backup plan. In fact, one of the first authors on GPT-3 is now at Columbia working on her PhD somewhere down the hall. She’s in year 3, so do the math… Now I know the true meaning of imposter syndrome.
There are industry places that will, at least as stated, take you seriously with no PhD as long as you have some publications (many job postings don’t require a PhD or say “or equivalent research experience”), and it’s unusual but not unheard of for people do this.
The thing is, a PhD program is a reliable way to build a research track record. And you don’t see too many PhD dropouts who want to be scientists because if you’ve got a research track record, the extra cost of just finishing your dissertation and graduating is pretty low.
Beautiful. Now if only someone would top you and get to work as an ML researcher at a top lab without a PhD. Bonus points if they have no degree at all. The last person I recall doing something like that was Freeman Dyson.
I’m tempted....
Does the industry route count? Many people in private labs (Google, OpenAI, etc.) got there the private route without school. That was actually going to be my backup plan. In fact, one of the first authors on GPT-3 is now at Columbia working on her PhD somewhere down the hall. She’s in year 3, so do the math… Now I know the true meaning of imposter syndrome.
There are industry places that will, at least as stated, take you seriously with no PhD as long as you have some publications (many job postings don’t require a PhD or say “or equivalent research experience”), and it’s unusual but not unheard of for people do this.
The thing is, a PhD program is a reliable way to build a research track record. And you don’t see too many PhD dropouts who want to be scientists because if you’ve got a research track record, the extra cost of just finishing your dissertation and graduating is pretty low.