Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
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Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#2It's not exactly a great year for extrapolating trends about what people are doing with their time. I wonder how much of this is 2020-specific and not just due to the natural cycle of AI winters.
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#3It's not exactly a great year for extrapolating trends about what people are doing with their time. I wonder how much of this is 2020-specific and not just due to the natural cycle of AI winters.
at least some is pure 2020. we want to hire, we can’t right now.
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#4This is an anecdote with no data. And the entire global economy is in a recession, so the fact deep learning might have fewer job postings isn't particular notable.
I'll note that in my personal anecdote, the megacorps remain interested in and hiring in ML as much as ever.
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#5Some context, for those unfamiliar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_winter
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#6Deep Learning has become mainstream. The place work at actually uses 2 unrelated products based on NN.
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#7While this sounds plausible and has a lot of "prior" credibility coming from someone as central to deep learning as François Chollet, I'd love to see corroborating signal in actual job-posting data, from LinkedIn, Indeed, GlassDoor, etc. Backing up this kind of claim with data is especially important given the fact that the pandemic is disrupting all job sectors to varying degrees.
As you can imagine, searching Google for "linkedin job posting data" doesn't work so great. The closest supporting data I could find is this July report on the blog of a recruiting firm named Burtch Works [1]. They searched LinkedIn daily for data scientist job postings (so not specifically deep learning) and observed that the number of postings crashed between late March and early May to 40% of their March value, and have held steady up to mid-June, where the report data period ends.
There's also this Glassdoor Economic Research report [2], which seems to draw heavily from US Bureau of Labor Statistics data available in interactive charts [3]. The most relevant bit in there is that the "information" sector (which includes their definitions of "tech" and "media") has not yet started an upward recovery in job postings, as of July.
[1] https://www.burtchworks.com/2020/06/16/linkedin-data-scienti...
[2] https://www.glassdoor.com/research/july-2020-bls-jobs-report...
[3] https://www.bls.gov/charts/employment-situation/employment-l...
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#8That may be true in the research arena (where Mr Chollet works), but I don't think that's the case in terms of where deep learning is actually applied in industry, nor will it be the case for years to come IMO.
It's just that much that needed to be invented has been invented and now it's time to apply it everywhere it can be applied, which is a great many place.
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#9While this sounds plausible and has a lot of "prior" credibility coming from someone as central to deep learning as François Chollet, I'd love to see corroborating signal in actual job-posting data, from LinkedIn, Indeed, GlassDoor, etc. Backing up this kind of claim with data is especially important given the fact that the pandemic is disrupting all job sectors to varying degrees. As you can imagine, searching Googl…
Here are some data points from March. https://towardsdatascience.com/whats-happened-to-the-data-sc...
Re: Deep learning job postings have collapsed in the past six months
#10the fact that he doesn't allow people to answer his tweets making data-less claims like this is really a problem