An Indian-origin AI veteran with more than 15 years of experience across research, academia, and major tech companies has offered grounded advice to young people hoping to break into artificial intelligence.

Speaking to Business Insider , Devi Parikh, formerly a senior director of generative AI at Meta and now co-CEO of the startup Yutori, said that today’s AI landscape is far more accessible than many assume, and that a PhD is no longer the gatekeeper to impactful work.

Now 41 and based in San Francisco, Parikh said her fascination with AI began back in college in the early 2000s, when she first encountered pattern recognition while studying electrical and computer engineering. That interest led her to pursue a PhD in computer vision at Carnegie Mellon University, which she complete

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