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by floor2 795 days ago
Eh, the "tech people" who've been laid off range everything from graphic designers to project managers to marketing, sales, HR etc, almost none of whom have any skill overlap with the engineers, mathematicians and scientists building AI.

There are a small number of CS-degree holding software engineers or statistical expert data scientists who can pivot into AI with a fairly direct application of their existing education and experience, but the vast majority of people who were laid off from "tech companies" do not have that background.

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It would be cheaper to just send them all on a month long training course than re-hiring.