Fuck coding

[Horace]

Depriving OpenAI of the talent probably plays into the amount of those offers. Anyway this must be an historic right place, right time confluence for those people with those specific resumes.

[Mik]

Seems like it would be bad for retention after the first year.

[jon-nyc]

Yes but these guys want to create the future the only question is where. They’re probably not typical mercenaries.

[Axtremus]

https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/biggest-seed-round-ai-thinking-machines-mira-murati/

Another "right place, right time, right résumé" situation: $2 Billion "seed round" valuing an AI start-up at $10 Billion; the founder being former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati. IIRC, Murati briefly replaced Sam Altman as interim CEO at OpenAI when Altman was briefly ousted from OpenAI.

[Mik]

Just think what this will do for salary data.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah but that’s why they use medians.

[Horace]

This lets us know how important Zuckerberg thinks it is to be first to market with whatever he is trying to do with AI. I'm sure those people he made those offers to are all bright and talented, but what makes them worth that, is their ability to hit the ground running, towards whatever it is Zuckerberg wants to do. The market will soon be glutted with newly minted AI experts, to whatever extent academia can produce them.

[Mik]

The crap AI he’s stuck into FB is an annoyance.

[taiwan_girl]

I read somewhere that Comp Sci majors are decreasing in schools and those that graduate are having problems getting hired.

[jon-nyc]

Yeah but at the same time ‘software development/engineering’ jobs are climbing so I wonder how much of this is just a nomenclature/categorization shift.