Interesting choice, his prior experience doesn't seem AI related yet he's going to lead an AI strategy at Meta?

Meta’s chief AI officer is a 29-30 year old who was acquihired as part of his data labelling company. He’s not a model developer.

Meta hires in strange ways. I’m convinced it’s more about your sales pitch going in.

	▲	ChickeNES 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> I’m convinced it’s more about your sales pitch going in. Given this guy's job will be selling Muse to corporations, sounds like the best way to hire for that position.
	▲	boshalfoshal an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		And I'm pretty sure this "29-30 year old who was merely acquihired" probably knows more than these veteran/boomer execs about how to execute a consumer AI product strategy. "Chief AI officer" does not mean he leads AI research efforts, its just a title. He just takes care of hiring and product direction, both of which I'd say hes done well in. They obviously have actual researchers working on models. I'd go as far as to say Alexandr Wang can do this better than most other leaders. Young people should be in charge of products, they generally have a better sense of what resonates with consumers, and Meta is a consumer company at the end of the day.

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burger_moon 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've run out of fingers for the amount of people in my network that are now leading/head of AI xyz at their employers yet have little to no understanding of AI beyond asking ChatGPT simple questions.

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Pxtl 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

MongoDB is the textbook success of "Zero friction and slick marketing beats good engineering discipline" that is the AI froth right now.

From a technical standpoint? Very different. From a marketing standpoint when selling to software-development clients? Same space.

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saalweachter 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, glancing at headlines this is basically "MongoDB is a company with a lot of experience selling to enterprise clients (and by extension the CEO knows how to run such a company), Meta wants to sell enterprise clients their AI offerings".

Which is like, not as weird as most AI company headlines, to be honest?

	▲	Pxtl 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not just that, they're also kinda similar value proposition, in that it's "holy crap look how fast you can develop code if you just ignore all of the longer-term risks you're creating". Both AI and Mongo can be used for good and quality code but that's not how they get sales.

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bombcar 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At least it’ll be Webscale.