FAIR vs FRL (or MAIR vs MRL now?!)

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mzy1004

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Nov 5, 2021 6 Comments

I've been seeing few interesting works being done in the reality labs for the past few months. I foresee that VR / AR (or metaverse) growing in the next decade, and that Meta is going to invest a lot of money in the Reality labs.

On the other hand, FAIR / Google Brain / DeepMind / OpenAI has been one of the most prestigious research labs for the past few years. I think AI is much more popular field and it will continue to grow.

I was wondering what you guys think about the future of each research directions would be like.

As a research scientist (or a software engineer), if you can join one of these labs, what would you join?

TC: 🥜 (student :p)

(I prefer the name FAIR over MAIR btw. They should rename it to Meta AI Department)

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  • Tata Consultancy Services / Eng
    dynamical

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    leetcoding my way out of TCS lmao
    dynamical
    I think because these are two very different areas within computer science and software engineering it really comes down to ones skill set and interest. You also have to remember that one doesn’t just get into Google Brain, FAIR, and other AI research labs. These *generally* all PhDs and some Master’s, MAYBE a few non-grad school engineers with prior ML experience.

    FB Reality Labs has been aggressively hiring general SWEs for their team but this is for AR/VR tech with has a different skill set compared to ML research.

    My point is that I don’t think these areas can be compared due to the difference in academic experience and professional experience.

    Both have a future but only one is feasible with a general CS degree but the other almost requires a Masters or PhD with relevant research experience.

    If you ask me, i’d take Reality Labs any day because I know 1. I don’t have a masters (yet, doing one rn) 2. It’s FB lol, come back to me in 2-5 years and I’d say AI because that’s where my interests lie.
    Nov 5, 2021 1
    • Amazon
      mzy1004

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      Yeah, I think they both are very cool techs, but I am not sure whether they are overhyped or not.
      AI had its winter before deep learning era. I am worried whether if the “winter is coming” again
      Nov 6, 2021
  • Facebook
    zuckerbrah

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    zuckerbrah
    Frl is a huge org. A lot of what you do is team dependant. Do you already have an offer?
    Nov 5, 2021 1
  • Intel
    zIqq57

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    zIqq57
    MRL looks overloaded to Microsoft Research Lab and Meta Reality Lab. :-)
    Nov 5, 2021 0
  • Apple
    aloid

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    aloid
    Ok
    Nov 5, 2021 0