-- Jeffrey Hammerbacher
I'm guilty as charged (at least it's about entertaining & useful ads) - but in my post-exit career I'd also be humbled to work on something with this magnitude and relevancy.
In the middle of the tech bubble it's easy to forget how the rest of the world will deal with this bubble with increasing automation, inequality and climate change. It's great to see some people actually tackling the really important topics even if they could get a 6-7 digit paycheck at top Tech companies.
Missing, of course, the strongest possibility, which is that said instrument, either covertly or overtly, is the big player which is calling the shots.
Equal opportunity to pay, or actually democratizing it so that anybody who wants to use it can reap the benefits?
I'm willing to bet it's not the latter, given the reliance of AI on large training corpuses and machine time.
Although, you do make a good point. If only the most powerful companies can afford meaningful machine time, how democratized can AI be?
That's the big trick that nobody seems to give a shit about, as they scramble around to make a buck.
Having the research or even the code doesn't really give you an advantage. We're just trading one set of overlords for another.
For the latter, I'd bet many of the smartest people here would want to do the crud work, even if they're not cofounders. The job of the ideal co-founder is to spread a mission that matters this much to everyone who would be fit to achieve it, inspiring all employees to be as committed. Well, OpenAI powered relentlessly by Greg, has inspired thousands of volunteers and open-source contributors in addition to it's top-notch staff.