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While ex-FAIR people should have little problem finding a job, the market for paying research folks that level of TC and working on ambitious research projects,
by roadside_picnic 1y ago
While ex-FAIR people should have little problem finding a job, the market for paying research folks that level of TC and working on ambitious research projects, unless you're in a very-LLM specific space, is absolutely shrinking.
It certainly feels like the end of an era to see Meta increasingly diminishing the role of FAIR. Strategically it might not have been ideal for LeCun to be so openly and aggressively critical of the this current generation of AI (even if history will very likely prove him correct).
- mikert89 1y agoVery very few positions for these people to go to. Also, their skills were made obsolete by LLMs.
- B-Con 1y agoFAIR? FAANG typo, or is there a new acronym?
- dragonwriter 1y ago> FAIR? > FAANG typo, or is there a new acronym? FAIR is the Meta AI unit (Fundamental AI Research) at issue, as spelled out in the second sentence of the article.