This week’s big headline is: “Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation“. Uh huh. [Business Insider] The idea is that instead of getting paid dollars to work for an …
  • AeonFelis@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    This idea was most recently floated by Thibault Sottiaux at OpenAI: [Twitter, archive]

    I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex.

    Aren’t these candidates asking about token budgets for doing their job? This has nothing to do with compensation…

    • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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      1 day ago

      They likely don’t know their staff have lives outside of the company and assume they are on board with everything as they are a family.