- Meta’s AI chief says he turned down an early job supply for director of analysis at Google.
- Yann LeCun stated there have been a number of causes for the choice, together with the compensation bundle.
- He acknowledged, nonetheless, that “the inventory choice bundle would have ended up stratospheric.”
Meta’s chief AI scientist, Yann LeCun, says he turned down a job supply for director of analysis at Google in 2002.
In a submit on X, LeCun stated there have been a number of causes behind the choice, together with the scale of the corporate and the compensation bundle.
LeCun stated the wage was low, particularly at a time when he wanted cash to assist his teenage sons. Regardless of the low compensation, LeCun stated “the inventory choice bundle would have ended up stratospheric.”
He additionally stated the corporate had 600 workers and no income on the time. This meant the position would have concerned many issues apart from analysis, together with company technique and administration, he stated within the submit.
LeCun, who received the Turing Prize for his analysis in 2018, stated he needed to refocus on analysis in a number of areas, together with machine studying. The deep-learning pioneer additionally stated his household did not need to transfer to California on the time.
He added that if he’d taken the position at Google he might have modified components of the corporate tradition.
Within the submit, LeCun stated, “Had I joined, I believe the analysis tradition at Google would have been completely different. I might need made it a bit extra open and a bit extra bold a bit earlier.”
Critics have beforehand accused Google of being gradual and overly cautious with its AI growth.
The success of the Microsoft-backed ChatGPT reportedly raised alarm bells at Google. The corporate has since launched competing merchandise for a number of of OpenAI’s merchandise, together with its personal AI-powered chatbot to rival ChatGPT.
Google representatives didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark from Enterprise Insider.
