Working at DeepMind, Interview Tips & doing a PhD for a career in AI | Dr. David Stutz
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 Published On Jun 21, 2023

Part-2 of my podcast with David Stutz. (Part-1:    • Part-1 Adversarial robustness in Neur...  )
David is a research scientist at DeepMind working on building robust and safe deep learning models. Prior to joining DeepMind he was a PhD student at Max Plank Institute of Informatics. He also maintains a fantastic blog on various topics related to machine learning and graduate life which is insightful to young researchers out there.

00:00:00 Working at DeepMind
00:08:20 Importance of Abstraction and Collaboration in research
00:13:08 DeepMind internship project
00:19:39 What drives research projects at DeepMind
00:27:45 Research in Industry vs Academia
00:30:45 Interview tips for research roles, at DeepMind or other companies
00:44:38 Finding the right Advisor & Institute for PhD
01:02:12 Do you really need a PhD to do AI/ML research?
01:08:28 Academia vs Industry: making the choice
01:10:49 Pressure to publish more papers
01:21:35 Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
01:33:24 Advice to young enthusiasts on getting started

David's Homepage: https://davidstutz.de/
And his blog: https://davidstutz.de/category/blog/
Research work: https://scholar.google.com/citations?...

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