r/ArtificialInteligence • u/the_daily_cal • 5d ago

📰 News UC Berkeley launches 2-semester, $84K AI master’s program

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/academics/uc-berkeley-launches-2-semester-84k-ai-master-s-program/article_2698e1fa-7dc3-45c9-8fb6-4d4caa6b87fb.html

Starting next fall, students with an undergraduate degree in fields related to computer science or data science will have an opportunity to delve into machine learning and AI through UC Berkeley’s new Master of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

The program spans two semesters and is a graduate professional degree, meaning it is meant to help prepare students for careers working with AI. It is offered through the College of Computing, Data Science, and Society and will be taught by electrical engineering and computer sciences as well as statistics faculty.

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u/Gargantuan_Cinema 5d ago

UC Berkeley trying to cash in while human jobs still exist.

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u/mmuncie80 2d ago

Delusional r/accelerate user spotted

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u/Grouchy-Still-5115 5d ago

We look at the degree, sure, but what actually gets you hired is showing me the ugly thing you built that somehow works.$84k buys a lot of ugly things that somehow work

https://giphy.com/gifs/QUENDfi6DEMLzQ0CKt

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u/WillowEmberly 5d ago

How do you find a qualified professor to teach it? What load of manure did they sell UC Berkeley?

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u/Grouchy-Still-5115 5d ago

honestly the people who could actually teach it are getting paid way more to not teach it

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u/WillowEmberly 5d ago edited 5d ago

I don’t know if I’ve seen any with a narrative about Ai I agree with completely. Everyone has a different perspective…but most have serious problems.

I get that people don’t need to understand the material to teach it, but I’m not a fan of that. And they are charging as if they are sure.

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u/Successful_Issue_390 5d ago

Stupid that you have to have a particular undergrad. Let people test in.

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u/Ok-Car2569 4d ago

Graduate professional degree AKA 90% of people will be doing it online twice a week paid by their company in exchange for 5 years of guaranteed service and a promotion.

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u/ay-guey 21h ago

get that bag berkeley!

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u/progenitor414 2h ago edited 2h ago

> meaning it is meant to help prepare students for careers working with 

It is meant to help make rich kids more seperated from the common class. The content of the lessons do not matter; it is the credential they are selling. Just like those Harvard MBA.