Re:The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)
by chung8123 on Thursday October 12, 2023 @01:31PM
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I think the issue is, right now AI is a race. We have the Microsoft, Google, Meta, Apple, and Amazon's of the world with their massive compute and bankrolls racing to see who can build the biggest moat around an AI service. The massive upfront spending is hoping to hit the winning lottery ticket and spending slowly may leave you out of the drawing.
As compute costs and requirements come down LLMs will be ubiquitous everywhere.
Re:The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)
by akomtu on Thursday October 12, 2023 @02:43PM
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It's the Manhattan Project 2.0. The AI, once created, won't be that hard to replicate, but those who fail to create it early, will be sidetracked later. The race among big tech is the american way of doing such projects: fund a few companies, let them compete and pick the winner.
My controversial take on AI is its actually a better time to take things slow, experiment, study, see what works. Not dump TONS of money and cash and get too distracted. Because nobody (besides big tech) has fully figured out how to make a product that makes a profit. Its not clear users want a chatbot (aside from ChatGPT)... But things could change.