Irony: AI giants racing to make intelligence abundant while fiercely fighting over scarce top researchers
VraserX · x · 2026-08-30
A widely shared quip: Google, OpenAI and Meta are trying to make human intelligence less economically scarce via AI — while fighting insanely hard over a tiny number of exceptional human researchers. The irony underscores how irreplaceable elite research talent still is.
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