I’m tenured in academia—I can only really talk about life here and funding models vary between countries.
I’d only advise people to do anything like an internship (but preferably you do it as part of your degree) with someone who has or is likely to get funding for a PhD student.
So to try and generalise this, my advice would be talk to people who are considered sound within the industry and get advice about what opportunities exist.
You (and me) had it hard when 23 and harder compared to the boomers (I had to do shitty unpaid internships to get ahead (on top of work not in my industry to support myself) which was a huge gamble looking back). But 10-15 years have passed and it’s even harder now and I couldn’t recommend that pathway to younger people — cause if they’d do an internship, they won’t get recruited 95% of the time. The gamble ain’t worth it.
An important sentence in the full report (as it will likely be misinterpreted by many):
“If there is outsourcing, it is likely to be to state-owned media companies based in Beijing.”
I’m not trying to offer any judgement about this. I just mean it’s not “outsourcing to tech bros” which I think some may read this as.
Also, I would have liked a better breakdown of the methodology as it sounds a little vague what they actually do. It seems to be: if judged as (potentially) problematic, do some mitigation. But which mitigation and the frequency (or their combination) is not clear. It probably is very hard to find out without leaked documents.
This feels like a really stupid move if they want to lock international users into US-based AI. This will just make more flock to alternatives that will catch up.
(This isn’t me being for AI but trying to understand this from the US perspective)
I said they are not my favourite people which kind of covers everything you are saying. You can mention them without having to preface everything wrong with them (and I wrote that sentence explicitly to not come across like I’m defending them and having answer these types of posts… but here we are).
I said it’s how they are coping with uncertainty. That’s all. Nothing more.
These acronyms were made by finance people dealing with the uncertainty. Basically pretend trump doesn’t exist so financial uncertainty becomes less volatile.
I understand they have their problems. And they are not my favourite people in the world.
But given the amount of noise in the media, having a taco/nacho approach is sometimes a good filter to apply to media drama around Trumps venting online.
To be clear, I’m not saying disengage from following world events. I mean you don’t need to follow them like a soap opera.
I’m tenured in academia—I can only really talk about life here and funding models vary between countries.
I’d only advise people to do anything like an internship (but preferably you do it as part of your degree) with someone who has or is likely to get funding for a PhD student.
So to try and generalise this, my advice would be talk to people who are considered sound within the industry and get advice about what opportunities exist.
They took a boat, clearly a detour
So it’s possible for both things to be true.
You (and me) had it hard when 23 and harder compared to the boomers (I had to do shitty unpaid internships to get ahead (on top of work not in my industry to support myself) which was a huge gamble looking back). But 10-15 years have passed and it’s even harder now and I couldn’t recommend that pathway to younger people — cause if they’d do an internship, they won’t get recruited 95% of the time. The gamble ain’t worth it.
An important sentence in the full report (as it will likely be misinterpreted by many):
“If there is outsourcing, it is likely to be to state-owned media companies based in Beijing.”
I’m not trying to offer any judgement about this. I just mean it’s not “outsourcing to tech bros” which I think some may read this as.
Also, I would have liked a better breakdown of the methodology as it sounds a little vague what they actually do. It seems to be: if judged as (potentially) problematic, do some mitigation. But which mitigation and the frequency (or their combination) is not clear. It probably is very hard to find out without leaked documents.
In with 115 comments. Weirdest flex.
But what if you change the office to a ballroom basement.
Same.
It’s an easy symbol to help people get out of the cult.
Is it important? No. Is it useful? Yes (if presented to the right people and not used as a circlejerk)
Really?
This feels like a really stupid move if they want to lock international users into US-based AI. This will just make more flock to alternatives that will catch up.
(This isn’t me being for AI but trying to understand this from the US perspective)
I just want to add that the dramatised reading of the forum exchange is amazing: https://youtu.be/JqylqmDl0Mw
Instagram is more racist than Facebook? I don’t use either but I’m behind the times
I said they are not my favourite people which kind of covers everything you are saying. You can mention them without having to preface everything wrong with them (and I wrote that sentence explicitly to not come across like I’m defending them and having answer these types of posts… but here we are).
I said it’s how they are coping with uncertainty. That’s all. Nothing more.
These acronyms were made by finance people dealing with the uncertainty. Basically pretend trump doesn’t exist so financial uncertainty becomes less volatile.
I understand they have their problems. And they are not my favourite people in the world.
But given the amount of noise in the media, having a taco/nacho approach is sometimes a good filter to apply to media drama around Trumps venting online.
To be clear, I’m not saying disengage from following world events. I mean you don’t need to follow them like a soap opera.
Nacho is apparently the new mantra in the stock markets.
Not a chance Hormuz opens.
From the people who gave us taco.
The People’s Republic of Alta