• Big Tech is lying about some AI risks to shut down competition, a Google Brain cofounder has said.
  • Andrew Ng told The Australian Financial Review that tech leaders hoped to trigger strict regulation.
  • Some large tech companies didn’t want to compete with open source, he added.
  • 5BC2E7@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There was a lot of controversy about him exploiting the people working for him and he publicly doubled down on admitting the need to overwork them.

    Edito: here is a source where they warn the new hires about 70hours per week being normal unfortunately i did not find another source, it’s from xitter: https://twitter.com/betaorbust/status/908890982136942592

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      1 year ago

      This looks like it’s from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷‍♂️.