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60 sats \ 6 replies \ @optimism 14 Mar \ on: Can careerism give rise to products with no natural market demand? econ
All for a temporary - at best - imagined moat over other resumes. However if you're recruiting you'll learn to see through it quickly. Because 99% of the rubbish resumes you get will mention AI. You'll ignore it and hire the people who don't highlight it come interviews.
I do wonder to myself how recruiters try to sift through it
At my university there is a massive need for people who actually understand the fundamentals of AI, but so many people are claiming to know about it (because they know how to operate ChatGPT or something) that it's hard for the administrators who know nothing to figure out who is worth listening to
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I think what I mean is someone who can actually sift through the hype and marketing bullshit. It would require knowing something about how these models work under the hood... but even more importantly, how the models are different, as well as the economics of the AI marketplace.
One example is that the university inked a deal with OpenAI to have them provide ChatGPT free to everyone and they marketed this as a big win.
But details of the deal are scarce. It wasn't clear to me which models we'll get access to. The administrators don't even seem to realize there are different levels to ChatGPT and couldn't answer questions about which ones we're getting when asked. (Maybe I'm not asking the right people.) But in either case, I'm worried that we just paid a bunch of money for obsolete, or commoditized models that are basically for free to everyone already anyway. I'll be surprised if we're getting unlimited access to o1 with DeepResearch mode enabled, for example.
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I'm used to working with competent purchasing / contract management peeps on these kind of things. They'll ask painful questions, get feedback from "SMEs" and so on. They'll bitch when there is no internal knowledge or when there are no honest enough people that will admit to the limits of their expertise.
inked a deal with OpenAI to have them provide ChatGPT free to everyone and they marketed this as a big win.
I think the more interesting part of this is what the uni brings to the table? There must be something you're giving (up), as "free" implies there is another benefit to OpenAI. Maybe it's just a vendor-lock, in the good old lock-'em-while-they're-young ways of MS and Goog -e.g. an "exclusive partnership" where no money but simply product preference changes hands?
But details of the deal are scarce.
Yeah that's a red flag.
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I don't know if the university paid anything, they probably did. But it'll be free to faculty students and staff of the university. I just don't know what level of models we get access to, whether there are usage limits, etc. the deal was announced but implementation hasn't happened yet
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