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The pool of young kids that can challenge the technical ability of someone with 20 years more experience is small enough that I don't mind competing with them f
by BobbyJo 1y ago
The pool of young kids that can challenge the technical ability of someone with 20 years more experience is small enough that I don't mind competing with them for employment.
- Der_Einzige 1y agoThat’s why AI is dominated by a bunch of 40 year old gen Xers. Oh wait, it’s not! Zuckerberg just gave a 25 year old promising AI researcher a 300 million offer that the researcher said “No” to. He didn’t give that to yann lecun, or yoshua bengio, or Hinton. He did it to a kid. When I go to NeurIPS, it’s mostly grad students in their 20s who are the first authors. The professors are almost always the last authors. 20 something kids are running circles around boomers today.