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Re:Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:19PM (#39633413)
The tier 1 graduates don't need to go to lower tier American programs anymore. They've already leveled up beyond that. They are going to tier 1 programs abroad, or just going to work at a FAANG or a Chinese-equivalent (when I worked for Microsoft Research in Beijing, we lost a lot of tier 1 undergraduate new graduates to Google in California, and that was 10 years ago)
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Re:Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets by alephnerd on Thursday March 07, 2024 @02:40PM (#39633674)
Fair point!

I guess my question is whether statistically speaking a MS Research Beijing caliber researcher in 2024 (or 2019) would prefer to work abroad in Bellevue or prefer to stay in China.

This is an open question and I'm not sure we'd have the granular level of data needed to test either hypothesis for at least a decade.

All I can use is anecdotal information, but that of course has biases.

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Re:Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing AI trade secrets by seanmcdirmid on Thursday March 07, 2024 @03:38PM (#39634313)
2019 they preferred to stay in China. 2024, I think the pendulum swung back again given COVID zero's fall out, but who knows how long that lasts.
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