To PhD or not to PhD in the AI Age? [D]

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Gonna apologize in advance since this isn’t directly ML related. But TLDR is I’m curious what other think will happen to the value of a PhD given the current trend of AI and the paper spam at conferences - for one, it’s not clear how PhD graduates will be evaluated for their work in a few years if everyone can spam papers. I don’t think citations are a (fair) solution. Alright, so context is I did my undergrad in computer engineering and then a masters in ML (reinforcement learning). On paper, I