New Delhi, Aug. 23 -- While Silicon seems to be going gaga over AI talent, with researchers and engineers getting millions of dollars in offers from tech companies like Meta, OpenAI and Google. However, Jad Tariffi, who founded the first generative AI team at Google said in a recent interaction that he would not encourage young people to get a PhD in order to get in on the AI hype.

In an interaction with Business Insider, Tariffi said, "AI itself is going to be gone by the time you finish a Ph.D. Even things like applying AI to robotics will be solved by then. So either get into something niche like AI for biology, which is still in its very early stages, or just don't get into anything at all,"

Tarifi himself has a PhD in AI from Unive...