Thanks for the link. This surprised me: “These high retention rates are important, because a large majority (about 2/3) of grad students getting trained in AI-related programs at US universities are not American citizens”
The current situation of making it difficult for recent graduates to get green cards could put pressure on retention (having students staying in the US). At my last job I tried for about a year to replace a deep learning engineer after someone on my team left for a dream job.
Currently many white collar jobs (like Wall Street analysts) are getting eliminated by deep learning and other models automation. I predict that it will be 5 to 7 years before most routine deep learning development will be largely automated, but until we achieve this, it is really important to have trained people to do the work. That said, top level AI research will not be automated in the near future.
The current situation of making it difficult for recent graduates to get green cards could put pressure on retention (having students staying in the US). At my last job I tried for about a year to replace a deep learning engineer after someone on my team left for a dream job.
Currently many white collar jobs (like Wall Street analysts) are getting eliminated by deep learning and other models automation. I predict that it will be 5 to 7 years before most routine deep learning development will be largely automated, but until we achieve this, it is really important to have trained people to do the work. That said, top level AI research will not be automated in the near future.