I'm a Tech CEO at the Berlin Global Dialogue (w OpenAI, Emmanuel Macron) - Here's what you need to know about what's being said about AI/Tech behind closed doors - AMA
Actually I do have an answer - it's people who were not on the inside of tech who become experts in these fields and then 'remember their journey' - there's a former public high schooler who then became an ML engineer and is now in whitehouse policy that I think is a potential ha
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I really hope the people impacting Whitehouse policy have more experience that a few years as an ML engineer, even if they are an ML engineer from MIT.
I have about a dozen friends who worked at the Whitehouse in past administrations in various capacities in their post-engineering lives and they had years and years of experience in the trenches and tremendous empathy to interact with people who didn't have that experience.
It was tremendously challenging for them, and it takes a really long time to even know if you had impact.
But they everyone there were true experts who were the best in the country at what they do, from every field, coming together to try to solve problems.
A person bringing a unique background to the table AND who has years and years of tech industry experience, would be an asset at the table, but it's far from the only answer to this.
And guess what! Some of those friends also had EXTREMELY diverse and unique backgrounds too, who remember where their journey VERY well thank you very much.
u/redmondnstuff wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
> One founder shared he'd laid off 300 people replaced with OpenAI's APIs (even the VP of at OpenAI appeared surprised)
I don't believe this at all
u/michaelnovatireplied·
If it was in Europe, it's incredibly hard to just lay people off overnight like that haha.
It would be easy to perhaps terminate an external contract you had that had outsourced 300 automatable jobs that were straight up replaced by AI doing the same thing.
u/redmondnstuff wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I’m just saying I don’t believe any business with a founder CEO could replace 300 people with OpenAI today. This sounds like some asshole trying to sound impressive.
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I think [Klarna](https://www.fastcompany.com/91039401/klarna-ai-virtual-assistant-does-the-work-of-700-humans-after-layoffs) is the canonical example. They fine tuned ChatGPT 3 models on their customer service people and then replaced many with the new model.
I don't know if these were full time employees or if they were located in Europe, or how much they saved by doing it.
Many sides to any story, this isn't my AMA but I have many thoughts on this haha.
u/alinafvasile wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
What specific leadership skills are going to be essential for the next generation of tech leaders to navigate the AI-dominated landscape? How should they adapt to thrive?
u/michaelnovatireplied·
This person (who created their account today and uses their full name) works for the OP and reports to him directly at his company - whose homepage claims to create the tech leaders of tomorrow - also relevant, no? Apparently not for either you or the OP in their response.
u/WillSen wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
I don't now how I missed this (maybe didn't show up til now?)
I asked something like this exact question (to be honest I didn't ask it well because it can be quite intimidating in these sorts of gatherings) - but I was trying to push them to engage in what I'm so skeptical about
u/michaelnovatireplied·
You said you've been working on AI stuff for 2 years, so why do you understand it better than a fleet of experts who have been doing ML and AI since the early 2000s? Assuming just one of those people has "unfakeable empathy", wouldn't that person be in a place to be a leader on ML or AI?
If someone new wants to get into AI/ML and does your 3 week course to learn the basics of Gen-AI, is empathy enough to supplant someone with the same background but has been doing it for 15 years? Why do assume everyone who isn't in tech has empathy to bring to the table?
Based on that argument you should start a school that doesn't teach any engineering skills and only teaches empathy? And if it's not teachable and something innate, then a school that identifies and nurtures people with innate empathy is great for finding a few leaders of tomorrow, but not accessible to everyone.
u/BoydemOnnaBlock wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Good eye. As with many contemporary conversations related to AI/ML, the most vocal are usually the quacks and self-purported “business leaders and visionaries” who believe they need to make every decision regarding the development of gen AI because obviously everyone else (includ
u/michaelnovatireplied·
I think it's really fucked up how someone making an anti establishment argument is manipulating the argument itself... there are are a number of accounts on this thread connected to OP's company.
More of the same in politics.
u/Dorothy28Walker wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
Did any world leaders talk about how they would actually make AI actually accessible to everyone in a structured way? It's a bummer that it seems this event was mostly a guarded, elite event and excluded any regular voices to represent us.
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This person is a moderator of the OP's Codesmith sub, relevant to the discussion.