Job placement program for top students in Stanford's online AI class
Maybe, but be careful and think 'long shot':<p>I was one of three researchers in a team at Yorktown Heights that did some of the best research in AI in the world, published a string of peer-reviewed papers, was the source of two commercial products, gave a paper at the AAAI IAAI conference in Stanford with for that year the 25 best AI applications in the world, personally won an award, etc.<p>I've taught computer science at Georgetown University and Ohio State University.  My Ph.D. is in applied math.<p>Once in my career, just as a 'scientific programmer', in two weeks I sent a few resume copies, went on seven interviews, and got five offers.<p>But after my Ph.D. and AI work, I sent over 1000 resumes to Google, Microsoft, GE, FedEx, and hundreds more, got only five interviews, and no offers.  I got a nice letter back from Fisher Black (as in Black-Scholes) saying that he saw no applications of applied math or AI at GS.<p>I ask you:  Who will hire you in AI and why?<p>In business, hiring is because some manager has some work to do and a budget to do it.  That manager believes that they know nearly all that is needed to do the work and otherwise would not be betting his career on the work.  Thus, the manager is not hiring high technical expertise he doesn't have.  Instead the manager is, as on a factory floor 100 years ago, hiring labor to add 'muscle' to his work.<p>In particular, unless the manager knows AI, he won't be hiring for AI.  And there is at most only a tiny chance that the manager knows AI and even less chance that his project will depend on AI.<p>Moreover, the manager does not want competition from below and does not want his project 'disrupted' from below so really doesn't want technical expertise above what is needed just to get his project done.<p>Net, if you know some AI and want to use it in business, then find an application and start your own business.  Then, since you know AI, you won't have to hire anyone in AI either.<p>What I've said here for AI holds for essentially all advanced academic topics.<p>Sorry 'bout that.