<p>The reason I am asking this question is because I am about to start a PhD in NLP. So I am wondering if there would be as much job opportunities in research in industry as oppose to in academia in the future (~ 5 to 10 years) or would it be mostly a matter of using a library off the shelf. I have done some research and it seems NLP is AI-complete, which means it's probably a problem that will be "solved" only when AGI is solved , but still I would appreciate any input.</p>

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2020-01-02T16:20:57.250Z
You should directly talk and ask advice to your possible advisors. They will probably give you a better overview of the state of affairs of the field. This question seems to be primarily opinion-based, so it should be closed here. Maybe you can reformulate it in such a way that it can be answered unambiguously.
nbro
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2020-01-02T16:47:30.870Z
@Ash a little side note: without a doubt, NLP will be a research topic in 5 years. granted you can get a lot of utility of taking something off the shelf but there are still many weaknesses to these models and unknown characterstics. It is *far* from solved
mshlis
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2020-01-02T22:47:00.613Z
Apologies.  This is a valid question, just not well suited for this Stack.  I'm closing provisionally, but **I think there is a valid question here: "IS NLP likely to be sufficiently solved in the next few years?"**.  (Feel free to revise and submit for re-opening.  By reformulating the question to be suitable for this stack, you should be able to get the info you're looking for.)
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Is NLP likely to be sufficiently solved in the next few years?
Ash
# Is NLP likely to be sufficiently solved in the next few years?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-01-02)

The reason I am asking this question is because I am about to start a PhD in NLP. So I am wondering if there would be as much job opportunities in research in industry as oppose to in academia in the future (~ 5 to 10 years) or would it be mostly a matter of using a library off the shelf. I have done some research and it seems NLP is AI-complete, which means it's probably a problem that will be "solved" only when AGI is solved , but still I would appreciate any input.

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> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: You should directly talk and ask advice to your possible advisors. They will probably give you a better overview of the state of affairs of the field. This question seems to be primarily opinion-based, so it should be closed here. Maybe you can reformulate it in such a way that it can be answered unambiguously.  
> **username_2**: @username_0 a little side note: without a doubt, NLP will be a research topic in 5 years. granted you can get a lot of utility of taking something off the shelf but there are still many weaknesses to these models and unknown characterstics. It is *far* from solved  
> **username_3**: Apologies.  This is a valid question, just not well suited for this Stack.  I'm closing provisionally, but **I think there is a valid question here: "IS NLP likely to be sufficiently solved in the next few years?"**.  (Feel free to revise and submit for re-opening.  By reformulating the question to be suitable for this stack, you should be able to get the info you're looking for.)  

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