New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

New trend: extreme hours at AI startups
These extreme hours are justified by a sprint to achieve Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) in just a matter of months.

Imagine working yourself ill for a goal that's completely stupid

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@volpeon imagine working your fingers to the bone to make Wheatley from portal 2

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@volpeon As far as I am aware, pretty much every single AI startup is American as well.

Our country has an incredibly dysfunctional and unhealthy relationship with work-life balance. :x

frawst@fedi.fraw.st

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip "look guys, maybe if we just work really hard, we can invent the machine god before we go bankrupt"

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@volpeon "But if I work myself to death now there will be something that replaces me so I'm out of a job, at least if it works like it's supposed to!"

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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups