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'we Can't Compete': Why niversities Are Losing Their Best AI Scientists
It was the case of the missing Ph.D. student.
As another academic year got under way at Imperial College London, a senior professor noted the absence of one of her students. He had worked in her lab for three years and had one more left to complete his studies. But he had stopped coming in.
Eventually, the professor called him. He had left for a six-figure salary at Apple.
"He was offered such a huge amount of money that he simply stopped everything and left," says Maja Pantic, professor of affective and behavioural computing at Imperial. "It's five times the salary I can offer. It's unbelievable. We cannot compete."
It is not an isolated event. A survey of Britain's top ranking research universities says tech firms are hiring AI experts at a prodigious rate, fuelling a brain drain that has already hit research and teaching.
From The Guardian
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