Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep pace with rivals

Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by oneoff786 on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:49AM (#30878589)

I’m a consultant / data scientist for a big management consulting firm.

What the hell is a big AI consultancy? As far as I can tell, these do not exist. Why would you expect to see meta doing consulting work at all?

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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by whimsicalism on Friday April 01, 2022 @10:56AM (#30878676)

Probably one of those companies trying to sell SMBs a "data platform." ie. like C3.ai ...

It seems snake oil adjacent to me, at least at this point.

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Re:Meta's A.I. exodus: Top talent quits as lab tries to keep... by version_five on Friday April 01, 2022 @12:48PM (#30880327)

That caught my attention too. I work on AI consulting and have a reasonable sense of the ecosystem. There are certainly big players that claim "AI" as part of their consulting business, e.g. Deloitte, but they are well removed from any of the research and really just selling dashboards or something with a new name. The GP comments is the kind of thing I would expect a consultant working at a place like that to come out with

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