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The field is extremely research oriented. You can't stay on top with good engineering and incremental development and refining. Google just paid over $2.4 bill
by nabla9 2y ago
The field is extremely research oriented. You can't stay on top with good engineering and incremental development and refining.
Google just paid over $2.4 billion to get Noam Shazeer back in the company to work with Gemini AI.
Google has the deepest pool of AI researchers. Microsoft and Facebook are not far behind.
OpenAI is losing researchers, they have maybe 1-2 years until they become Microsoft subsidiary.
- xbar 2y agoYou make it sound like AI researchers are in short supply.
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoFor almost all jobs X, "really competent X" are in exceedingly short supply.
- xbar 2y agoThat is certainly true. But the market began searching in earnest for "really competent X" in this field only about 2 years ago. Before that, it was a decidedly opt-in affair..
- danielmarkbruce 2y agoAre you saying the average AI researcher isn't good? I'm not arguing with you, I just can't parse what you are saying here.
- xbar 2y agoI'm saying that both the volume and upper bound are increasing, not becoming constrained.
- nabla9 2y agoGood AI researchers and research teams are. The whole LLM era was started with the 2017 "Attention is all you need" paper by Google Brain/Research and nobody has done anything same magnitude since. Noam Shazeer was one of the authors.