FOR YOU Dr. Bart Selman, professor of computer science at Cornell, says the AI job market is potentially unlimited at the larger research labs, developing ingenuity like next generation software. You need distinct interest in your own brain. Computers are still so close to infancy that any student can help AI grow up. This is more relevant nowadays with Internet start-ups wanting to use information retrieval techniques, thereby offering one way to start working directly out of school. Indeed, your bachelor's in computer science alone may be enough to get your foot in the AI door.
Pressures are on designers to turn out computers that provide better services.
If they don't follow through, they'll be out of work quick. More than anything, people's preferences will decide the behaviors in computers that will advance. If they get scary, they will not be used. If we are able to ultimately create fully autonomous entities then clearly we'll need to develop a layer around the entities' software that deals with the issues of safety and privacy necessary to protect humans from eminently more powerful machines. McKinstry has a more positive outlook on the fruits of his labor.