Other researchers credit a lack of non-competes for rapid progress
Serious take: the high turnover of AI engineers / researchers across companies has been absolutely fundamental in keeping information flowing, maintaining competition and the pace of innovation, and avoiding a single-AI provider dystopia.
Positive users praise AI talent turnover for spreading knowledge, boosting competition, and enabling open source via non-compete laws, while negative users see high churn as dystopian with risks of IP theft and power concentration.
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Yeah but also don't like steal IP lol There is a thing that you do that generates the insight, that free flow is very important, but like the actual exact thing. Basically just be very very careful
Serious take: the high turnover of AI engineers / researchers across companies has been absolutely fundamental in keeping information flowing, maintaining competition and the pace of innovation, and avoiding a single-AI provider dystopia.
imo if there were non-competes in the AI labs, models would prolly be half as good as they are now.
Serious take: the high turnover of AI engineers / researchers across companies has been absolutely fundamental in keeping information flowing, maintaining competition and the pace of innovation, and avoiding a single-AI provider dystopia.
@francoisfleuret sv was founded on turnover see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traitorous_eight
@francoisfleuret We should start introducing transfer fees …
@francoisfleuret real
@francoisfleuret Long live open source software systems, the companies that support them, and the universities that use them to teach the next generation of graduates.
@francoisfleuret Anthropic needs to leak some talent, it's getting too concentrated there. Dario seems be having evil thoughts.
@HildeKuehne @francoisfleuret We should start introducing training fees, where companies pay 1 month of salary to the lab that trained the student ;)
@francoisfleuret I just wish they would publish instead: not publishing doesn’t give an advantage against their immediate competitors while publishing is a competitive advantage in retention of researchers
@yacineMTB It's really interesting that AI hasn't figured out the contract stipulation that a lot of other heavily IP-based industries use, where you are contractually obligated to not work for another company competing in the same field for x amount of time (typically 1 year)
@francoisfleuret Maybe but didn't we get turn over from top labs to Chinese start ups and this didn't stop the information flow
@francoisfleuret Result: A monoculture with zero ability to reach AGI, which we should be very thankful for.
@francoisfleuret Which is why any really serious AI research institution must be organized more like a mix of cult and PMC.
@francoisfleuret nope 👎
@francoisfleuret Now tell me, where do Anthropic researchers go to?
@francoisfleuret Now we just need chinese labs to poach talent from openai and anthropic and we're done
@francoisfleuret The high turnover is the dystopia
@francoisfleuret Capitalism winning.
@francoisfleuret Largely possible due to California's law against non competes. One of the few California policies we actually should adopt everywhere.
@francoisfleuret May the hype be with us