Elon Musk says that researchers are pretending, only engineers in XAI and SpaceX are only engineers
XAI CEO Elon Musk has recently publicly corrected a job opening, saying that the company does not hire researchers, but only appoints engineers.
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In short
- Elon Musk said that XAI only horses engineers, no researcher
- He calls the ‘researcher’ an old academic word
- After XAI, SpaceX also leaves the word ‘researcher’
Engineers are hired to join the XAI of Elon Musk; However, researchers have no place in the team. Recently in X, aka Twitter Post, Musk defined his understanding of engineers and researchers. Responding to opening a job posted by a technical member in XAI, he says that “researcher” is an ancient word that should not be in their company’s dictionary. He said that from this day, Xai has only engineers.
He said, “This false naming of” researcher “and” engineer “, which is a diluted way to describe a two-level engineering system, is being removed from XAI today. There are only engineers. Researcher is a relic word from academics.”
Immediately after the improvement of the Musk, the employee, Aditya Gupta, again took to X and posted, “Recording: Search for solid engineers.” Regarding the job, the employee posted that XAI is looking for researchers and engineers, “to increase the RL environment with user reactions and preference in loops.”
But XAI is not the only organization to remove “researchers” from its dictionary; SpaceX (ownership of Elon Musk) will also follow the suit. Musk stated that when SpaceX works on state-of-the-art research on the advancement of rockets and satellites, “but we (still) show off, less-a-low-linked words” researchers “.
According to Musk, engineer is the right word for employees that work with XAI and SpaceX. But this is not the first time Musk has exposed the difference between these two words.
In 2015 by Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, Openi, Kofounded, has also taken an unconventional approach to their technical teams for job titles, borrowing inspiration from the past.
In a post on X Back in February 2023, Brockman said that the company wanted to move away from traditional labels like “researcher” and “engineer”, said that he had spent a lot of time to think about describing these roles before settling on the designation of “members of technical staff”. ” There is a heritage in the title itself: it was first used in Zerox Parc, the famous research lab was credited with inventions such as computer mouse and graphical user interfaces.
This idea has since caught. AI startup anthropic has adopted the same structure established by exopene employees. On its website, the company states that all its scientists and engineers share the single title of “members of technical staff”, and that its engineers are often credited as writers on research papers – in many cases in the position of the leading author.
Anthropic argues that the old difference between research and engineering in machine learning no longer keeps, claiming that with large models “this line has effectively disappeared”.
