Comment by vintermann
15 hours ago
They knew what Yann LeCun was when they hired him. If anything, those brilliant academics who have done what they're told and loyally pursued corporate objectives the way the corporation wanted (e.g. Karpathy when he was at Tesla) haven't had great success either.
>They knew what Yann LeCun was when they hired him.
Yes but he was hired in the ZIRP era where all SV companies were hiring every opinionated academic and giving them free reign and unlimited money to burn in the hopes that maybe they'll create the next big thing for them eventually.
These are very different economic times right now, after the FED infinite money glitch has been patched out, so now people do need to adjust to them and start actually making some products of value for their seven figure costs to their employers, or end up being shown the door.
Some employees even need to physically present at the office
so your message is to short OpenAI before it implodes and gets absorbed into Cortana or equivalent ;)
Unless you're an insider, currently you'd need to express that short via something else.