Meta offered one AI researcher at least $10,000,000 to join up

Meta has made lavish and lucrative offers to a select set of AI researchers in an effort to develop superintelligent AI. CEO Mark Zuckerberg himself has taken to emailing job offers to elite talent. One AI researcher told us Zuckerberg offered them an eight-figure compensation package – at least $10,000,000 a year. "I got an …

[Anonymous Coward]

Can GenAI based on an LLM really beat a human at Go ? I thought the privilege was reserved to specialized systems dedicated to the task.

So far, the only superhuman skill I've noticed in AI is its infinite capacity to plagiarize.

[Ken Moorhouse]

Bad day for humanity

Continually incentivising AI progress with a monetary motive does not auger well for civilisation's future.

(So, if I were offered the job, would I take it? No, not unless there is a chance of embedding something deep in the bowels of AI that returns "um, er, my brain hurts" every time a question is asked).

[Anonymous Coward]

As when I see it attached to justifying CEO salaries, I rolled my eyes into the back of my end when I read the word “talent”

[amanfromMars 1]

Hesitation always leads one late to the start of the party to feast on the crumbs of rejection

One AI researcher told us Zuckerberg offered them an eight-figure compensation package – at least $10,000,000 a year. The researcher, who may or may not accept the offer, asked not to be identified. The offer did not specify exactly what the job entailed.

Whenever gifted with such an exceptionally generous offer, with Mark Zuckerberg himself being personally responsible and/or contractually accountable, it would surely be incredibly rude and not at all like any credible worthwhile superintelligent AI researcher to not accept.

If one is any good at what one has presumably been identified as being very good at, one will be able to enable the virtually remote generation of gazillions which should be more than just extremely comforting and justifiably rewarding.

What's not to like to having one pondering on whether to accept the offer or not? Grab life by the scruff of the neck and give yourself a chance at unbelievable happiness beyond any lesser fortunate peer groups wildest of dreams.

Where's the risk reside and preside? Carpe Diem.

[Omnipresent]

There is evil in this world

and tech has given them the power to destroy. The children will eat themselves alive with this drug.

[teebie]

"Training frontier models is a bit like alchemy:"

It's a load of old bollocks, and it doesn't work.