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The field didn't just show up out of the blue. People around the world have been researching it for decades. A lot of them now want to come work in the US becau
by paxys 3y ago
The field didn't just show up out of the blue. People around the world have been researching it for decades. A lot of them now want to come work in the US because this is where the money and opportunity is.
Take a look at the current AI landscape in the US. Almost everyone at the top of the field is a first generation immigrant, who managed to make it in while the process was still easy. It's wild that people see the clear benefits of their work to the economy and to US supremacy and then turn around and say that we need to stop importing talent because it takes away domestic jobs.
- peteradio 3y agoAlso "Replacement Theory" isn't real.
- xhkkffbf 3y agoWhere do you get the data to make the claim about the first generation immigrants. People like Sam Altman were born in Chicago. A great deal of AI research began in the US in the 1970s. What have the US colleges been doing since then?
- paxys 3y agoSam Altman does not have an AI background. OpenAI exists because of Ilya Sutskever. Anthropic's founders (Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei) are immigrants, as is Clément Delangue (HuggingFace), Aidan Gomez (Cohere) and upwards of 70% of new AI startups in the country. And Jensen Huang, Andrew Ng, Andrej Karpathy, Fei-Fei Li, Yann LeCun, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Shane Legg and pretty much the entire list of who's who in AI today. Demis Hassabis and a good chunk of his DeepMind team is British. Elon Musk himself would likely not have been able to clear the immigration process had he shown up to the country today. Despite what people here like to believe, the USA doesn't have a monopoly on talent. It has always relied on immigration to maintain supremacy. As for the "what have US colleges been doing" question – take a look at the nationalities of research departments at any major university in the country. The smartest people come here from all over the world to study, and are now promptly sent home with all the knowledge they gained because we don't let them put that knowledge to work here.
- tharmas 3y agoWhy doesn't Google fund or open a school that trains talent? Why is it always "please let in more foreigners who are already trained"? Corps like Google with their attitude are just contributing to brain drain and helping to make those other countries poorer as a result. Oh right, brain drain is a foreign policy strategy to keep other countries down and America strong. Right, shutting up now.