However, they are torn between their love for research and the fear of missing out on the current boom in the AI/ML industry, which spans various exciting areas such as robotics, web agents, and coding assistants. They are considering two options: abandoning the PhD to immediately join the industry or continuing with the PhD for long-term benefits.
Key takeaways:
- The author has received an offer to pursue a PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Machine Learning, from a top-tier university.
- The author's research interests include interpretability, adversarial robustness, privacy, and fairness in machine learning.
- The author's ultimate goal is to have a long-term career in industry research in machine learning as a research engineer or scientist.
- The author is seeking advice on whether to pursue the PhD or to join the industry, specifically an early-stage AI/ML startup, as a founding engineer.