[stub for offtopicness] Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432526
Mark Zuckerberg hiring top AI researchers worries me more than Iran hiring nuclear scientists.
better than sam altman having them
Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
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Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mark Zuckerberg hiring top AI researchers worries me more than Iran hiring nuclear scientists.
With luck, they'll vaporize billions of dollars on nothing of consequence. If they come up with anything of consequence, we'll have an incredibly higher level of Facebook monitoring of our lives in all scopes. Also such a level of AI crap (info/disinfo in politics, crime, arts, etc.) that ironically in-person exchanges will be valued more highly than today. When everything you see on pixels is suspect, only the tangi…
do you remember the chorus of people on HN two years ago who said that the next AI winter was already upon us?
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#33• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl. • Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. • Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. • Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imageg…
Anybody have an idea of how much these people are making?
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#34• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl. • Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. • Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. • Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imageg…
Also Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman.
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
With luck, they'll vaporize billions of dollars on nothing of consequence. If they come up with anything of consequence, we'll have an incredibly higher level of Facebook monitoring of our lives in all scopes. Also such a level of AI crap (info/disinfo in politics, crime, arts, etc.) that ironically in-person exchanges will be valued more highly than today. When everything you see on pixels is suspect, only the tangi…
do you remember the chorus of people on HN two years ago who said that the next AI winter was already upon us?
Were they wrong? It's pretty undeniable that every model release since GPT-4 has been less impactful than the last.
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#36• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl. • Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. • Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. • Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imageg…
Also Alexandr Wang, Nat Friedman.
This list is specifically about the poaching from OpenAI / DM I believe
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#37• Trapit Bansal: pioneered RL on chain of thought and co-creator of o-series models at OpenAl. • Shuchao Bi: co-creator of GPT-4o voice mode and o4-mini. Previously led multimodal post-training at OpenAl. • Huiwen Chang: co-creator of GPT-4o's image generation, and previously invented MaskIT and Muse text-to-image architectures at Google Research. • Ji Lin: helped build o3/o4-mini, GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.5, 4o-imageg…
Anybody have an idea of how much these people are making?
Minimum wage in California is $16.50 per hour, so they are making that at least.
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you remember the chorus of people on HN two years ago who said that the next AI winter was already upon us?
Were they wrong? It's pretty undeniable that every model release since GPT-4 has been less impactful than the last.
im pretty sure that when the top companies are poaching leaders in AI for some of the largest payouts in history… we are not in an AI winter. so they were completely wrong. im guessing you are one of them.
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
This stuff is ridiculously important for healthcare: It’s a demographic fact that both the US and the world at large are simply not training enough doctors and nurses to provide today’s standard of care at current staffing levels as the population ages. We need massive productivity boosts in medicine just as fast as we can get them.
I sincerely doubt this understaffing of medical professionals is a technology problem, and I believe it much more likely to be an economic structural problem. And overall, I think that powerful generative AI will make these economic structural problems much worse.
It's a gatekeeping problem. Doctors don't want more doctors because it dilutes their own value, so medical school and residency spots are kept artificially limited.
Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
Were they wrong? It's pretty undeniable that every model release since GPT-4 has been less impactful than the last.
im pretty sure that when the top companies are poaching leaders in AI for some of the largest payouts in history… we are not in an AI winter. so they were completely wrong. im guessing you are one of them.
Bubbles are always the craziest right before they pop