Short YouTube dialogue (multi-speaker) debating whether getting a master’s degree in AI is worthwhile. Both speakers advise against a traditional university master’s, arguing that AI changes too quickly for curricula/textbooks to keep up; instead they recommend learning by building projects, using online tutorials, guides, people, and AI to solve problems and iterate.
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Do you think it's worth it to get a master's in AI? If you're asking this question, the answer is no.
100%. Agree with Sabrina here. Basically, the rate of change momentum in artificial intelligence is way too fast for a traditional university to be able to catch up. They work in the timescale of curriculum development and textbooks, and there's no way that they can incorporate all the changes that are happening every single week in artificial intelligence. By the time the textbook has been published, it's already out of date by a couple of years, which in AI is an absolute eternity. Therefore, universities are just ill suited as an institution for teaching this stuff right now. Instead, choose a project that you want to build and start to build. You are going to hit roadblocks. Not a problem. You're going to find resources. They are going to be people, they're going to be guides, they're going to be tutorials online. It might be asking an AI. You're going to use that to work your way through each problem, because the answers are not in a textbook, they're not in a university curriculum. I'm actually sitting down to build something using artificial intelligence. You're going to learn way more than you ever would in a course.