[throwawayeai]

I worked at Element AI, and that was true from the inside to an extent that was borderline terrifying. On orientation we were told that EAI's strategy was to hire as many smart individuals as possible. There was no focus on delivering an actual product, it was demo after demo of semi-impressive DL models.

It makes me sad thinking of all the brilliant colleagues I had that were simply wasting their talent.

[amelius]

> It makes me sad thinking of all the brilliant colleagues I had that were simply wasting their talent.

At least they were not making people click ads ...

[gumby]

This was why jg bought DeepMind. Presumably they hoped lightning would strike twice.

[rfrey]

That strategy worked out ok for DeepMind.

[lostmsu]

And OpenAI. So far.