Any of you Seattle folks hear about this company? Thought of applying? Gossip?
IM me if you know AI and want to work on it. we have better AI stuff in MS.
Define "know AI" - I ask because I want to move into this field. I'm applying to grad school, however, I can't help but wonder if self study could be sufficient.
If doing real work is your objective do an ML specialization on EDx or coursera. Things are changing too fast in this space for the grad schools to keep up anyways
I don't know much about AI, but as someone living in Seattle the Allen institutes all seem like kind of a joke. Some pretty buildings and goofy research that couldn't stand on its own in either industry or academia.
Huh. Will have to ask what my Allen Institute just-finishing-PhD friend would say about that. (his work all seems super cool - and has interesting govt backing)
Come to Big Daddy Microsoft for anything related to AI. The most advanced AI is going on here.
There are some hardcore deep learning groups at Amazon. IM me if you need referencing. Amazon has much more physical real world connectivity than these other companies, which means the only way to model, optimize, automate and control physical things is via deep, high dimensional models.
Well then, looks like the Seattle people hate the Allen Institute while thinking Amazon and Microsoft are doing more impressive things. Does nobody respect AIAI?
No one can get into Allen institute and that's why the hate. It's surely is a fantastic place.
Allen Institute has a great rep in seattle in the data science community and works on awesome stuff, MS and Amazon are just trying to recruit.
AI2 is solid. They just hired an ex-Amazon guy as CTO, lots of ex-industry people there, doing very interesting work. However, it's a nonprofit, so comp is lower and little or no upside. Check it out and make your own assessment.
Leaving uber for that????? Why???