The AI research job market shit show (and my experience)
It’s pretty wild that everyone is so interested in the where’s and when’s of researchers in AI these days. It's becoming a bit like transfer news in all of our favorite sports leagues. It's more than just drama and gossip. Zoomed-in, it's the leading indicator of which companies are going to gain and fall behind. Zoomed-out, it's a way to measure the consolidation vs. dispersion of talent in AI. Until ChatGPT, talent was always incrementally aggregating at Brain, FAIR, etc. Now, AI talent is so spread thin that it's a defining feature of working in AI: it's extremely hard to get the people you want.1 The investment in GenAI is an ongoing catalyst for a job market shakeup. Jobs in GenAI and LLMs are plentiful, everything else is on ice (but thawing). Many people trying to hire are super stressed about getting the people they want. Too many organizations trying to ship LLMs, not enough skilled people. Once the balance shifts in the direction of extreme scarcity, a sense of normalcy in a
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