[siva7]

> it is exactly a researcher's purpose to do the risky things that may not work

Maybe at university, but not at a trillion dollar company. That job as chief scientist is leading risky things that will work to please the shareholders.

[vintermann]

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.

[jack_tripper]

>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.

[miohtama]

Some employees even need to physically present at the office

[rob_c]

so your message is to short OpenAI before it implodes and gets absorbed into Cortana or equivalent ;)

[corford]

Unless you're an insider, currently you'd need to express that short via something else.

[Hendrikto]

> risky things that will work

Things known to work are not risky. Risky things can fail by definition.

[tempfile]

What exactly does it mean for something to be a "risky thing that will work"?

[rsynnott]

“Risky things that will work” - contradiction in terms. If companies only did things they knew would work, we probably still wouldn’t have microchips.

Also, like… it’s Facebook. It has a history of ploughing billions into complete nonsense (see metaverse). It is clearly not particularly risk averse.