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they have the money to hire the ai researchers & executives, and the industrial know how & infrastructure to actually follow through. Google and Tesla probably
by make3 9y ago
they have the money to hire the ai researchers & executives, and the industrial know how & infrastructure to actually follow through.
Google and Tesla probably have easier access to top top talent because of the more attractive research & dev culture & hype/branding, but GM can probably just pay more and still get high grade talent, because they know it's worth it in the long term & they have capital.
.. some researchers must have been the target of pretty intense bidding wars. Like Karpathy at Tesla... I'd be really curious to know if his salary reached low 8 digits. Mid to high 7 for sure, right.
- LeifCarrotson 9y ago> they have the money to hire the ai researchers & executives, and the industrial know how & infrastructure to actually follow through. If they're able to isolate these researchers and executives from the cruft and bureaucracy that has built up in their ICE-based manufacturing, sure. I've made a number of deliveries to their Warren, MI tech center. While I'm generally supportive of unionization efforts in most industries, the unions at GM cause a lot of work to take place at a tenth the pace and urgency of other companies. I'd expect that if they hire a top-talent AI researcher, they'd then ask them to spend the first 3 weeks of their employment waiting around for IT to finally procure a laptop for them. And you'd better hope that it comes with a full battery charge, because plugging the charger for said laptop into the wall requires summoning the maintenance electrician. It's unfathomable the way weeks of delay can be added to tasks that would take an hour at most in a startup.
- fma 9y agoI believe in their acquisition of Cruise Automation, they've mostly left it independent and still headquartered in Silicone Valley.