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   From: mephistopheles_01@hotmail.com   
      
   Hello everybody,   
      
   I am a programmer working in the commercial world, and I would like to   
   get into AI, preferably a position that amounts some amount of   
   research/creativity. I have never done AI related work before, so I am   
   considering the following options to make me more palatable to   
   employers. I am targeting industry and government, not a professorship   
   in academia.   
      
   1) read up on ai on my own   
      
   2) do an MS with thesis at a local college. The advantage of this over   
   a Phd is that I can keep my current job and do it in the evening   
      
   3) go in for a full time PhD. I would enjoy the opportunity to do a   
   full blown research project, but there is the cost factor of chucking   
   in my job for 6 years   
      
      
   I would like to know what people think of these options. Any comments   
   would be welcome,   
      
   Thanks,   
      
   -Sam Banerjee   
      
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