Comment by crystal_revenge

4 months ago

Don’t be naive, these companies don’t care about talent they care about prestige and credentials. <username>@standford will always beat “did actual work relevant to the project”.

Just look at the background of some of the names in this at these places. As always it’s “who you know and where you’ve been” not “what you know and what you’ve built”

edit: You can downvote if you like, but it doesn’t change the fact that high stakes tech has never been a meritocracy and AI companies are no different.

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epolanski  4 months ago

While eventually bias and inefficiency exist in every org, these companies would not be competitive if they prioritized bogus metrics.

  • dash2  4 months ago

    I mean, there are three serious top level AI companies, and the only thing they're competing on right now is the quality of their frontier models. Or arguably their ability to raise cash, in an extremely "buzzy" market....

    • epolanski  4 months ago

      There's definitely more than 3 companies competing for AI talent and you know that very well.

      Nvidia, Apple, Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, Tesla, Microsoft, Mistral and dozens and dozens of well funded AI startups are just among those with more resources.

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