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Serious question, is this value justified? I don't have any contact with AI development or AI researchers. Do they really bring that much value to the business?
by jorblumesea 7y ago
Serious question, is this value justified? I don't have any contact with AI development or AI researchers. Do they really bring that much value to the business? It makes sense that for Google, these positions would have almost unlimited clean data. But many companies are not Google.
- m0zg 7y agoHow do you define "justified"? The field is so new, someone who really knows what they're doing could mean a difference between a large team spending years and getting nowhere remarkable, and improving state of the art every 6 months. With the same exact team. So would you rather get nothing for your money, or something valuable every 6-9 months? That's the question. These people are typically hired after trying pretty hard to get results out of generalists, and failing.
- scarejunba 7y agoI think he's asking if these people produce positive marginal value to the company. The answer is usually yes.
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- ryacko 7y agoI don't think AT&T made much from Bell Labs.
- HeWhoLurksLate 7y agoDirectly.
- ryacko 7y agoUnix-compatibility has yielded more income to other companies than to the company that designed it.
- chillacy 7y agoIf you can improve ad targeting effectiveness at google's scale I imagine you'd justify your salary pretty quickly.