founder of leading AI company Element.AI, calculated that there are fewer than 10,000 people in the world currently qualified to do state-of-the-art AI research and engineering.(53) Most of them are gainfully employed and hard to poach. If you’re looking to recruit fresh graduates, the head of a prominent Silicon Valley AI lab recently confided to us that American universities only graduate about 100 competent researchers and engineers in this field each year!
