Across the country, talented computer scientists are being lured from academia by private sector offers that are hard to turn down. According to a Guardian survey of Britain’s top ranking research universities, tech firms are hiring AI experts at a prodigious rate, fuelling a brain drain that has already hit research and teaching. Pantic said the majority of top AI researchers moved to a handful of companies, meaning their skills and experience were not shared through society. Photograph: The Royal SocietyGhahramani began working at Uber part time when the company bought Geometric Intelligence, his AI startup, last year. Ghahramani sees no sign that industry’s demand for talented AI researchers has peaked.

Source: The Guardian November 01, 2017 10:32 UTC