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Am I reading this correctly: an AI researcher might get paid roughly the same amount of money as the largest transfer of a soccer player in history (Neymar at €
by matt_cogito 1y ago
Am I reading this correctly: an AI researcher might get paid roughly the same amount of money as the largest transfer of a soccer player in history (Neymar at €220M)?
There is hope for humanity.
Jokes aside, how and why?
- lionkor 1y agoHow: Meta has the money because they presumably have infinite margins. Why: Its a bubble.
- TrackerFF 1y agoWhy: Zuck knows exactly one trick, and that is to throw money at a problem. I don't know what the current tally on his metaverse fiasco is, but if he can spend billions upon billions on that, then poaching AI researchers and engineers for a fraction of that isn't really out of character.
- thatguysaguy 1y agoAt least part of is is that the capex for LLM training is so high. It used to be that compute was extremely cheap compared to staff, but that's no longer the case for large model training.