Which of these sectors has high prospects in the job market; data science in the astrophysics area or data science in the social science area?

Data science in the astrophysics area or data science in the social science area is limiting what “Big Data Analysis” can do in the 21st Century.

In a July 20th, 2017 article from NY Times reports of China’s heavy investment on A.I.:

In June, the government of Tianjin, an eastern city near Beijing, said it planned to set up a $5 billion fund to support the A.I. industry.

An August 2017 report “Japan to pump funding into AI chip development” from Nikkei writes about heavy investment by the Japanese of A.I. hardware:

Vladimir Putin through a broadcasted speech to the students of Russia he told them: “the one who becomes the leader in this sphere will be the ruler of the world.” In classic Russian fashion, the government’s Military Industrial Committee has set a target of making 30 percent of military equipment robotic by 2025.

The EU and U.S. government investments in Artificial Intelligence are both more specifically funding “Deep Learning. “

To date, the Trump administration has not paid attention to how AI is likely to affect Americans or the world around us. The administration dismisses concerns that automation will displace U.S. workers as the Office of Science and Technology Policy lies in shambles.

The Government of Canada announced $125 million in funding for a Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy to be led by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR).

Meanwhile in the U.S. the academic institutions are being starved of government research funding and are forced into indentured servitude. The latest MIT-IBM announcement is simply a reflection of this predicament.

Meanwhile in the U.S. the academic institutions are starving of government research funding and are being forced into indentured bondage; i.e., MIT-IBM holding hands as a reflection of this predicament.

Today, corporations like Google, Microsoft and Facebook are performing the majority of the research on Deep Learning and these firms are way ahead of anything the government is doing. They’re stripping out universities for research-work in places like Silicon Valley.

In this new world order it means that us commons, we’ll have to hope that others will be kind enough to share their discoveries with us.