And then some of those that walked out will work for Google also due to job market shit fuckery. What a time to be alive
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New grads can get jobs?
I've seen it happen! She... lives in Canada, you wouldn't know her
Not at Google, Amazon, or Meta. Some companies are still hiring new grads to make entry level engineers into their future senior engineers, but it's usually older companies.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/ibm-expands-entry-level-hiring-165921396.html
Well if they have degrees in software engineering, certainly.
Where have you been the last few years lol, new CS grads aren't exactly doing well at the moment.
They're still doing better than a lot of fields. I mean when you factor in compensation it's still one of the best fields to be in. Compare to a teacher, where you'll need a master's degree in most states and then you can expect a salary around 40k. Whereas with software, when you do find a job it's not unusual to start over 100k. But if you were willing to work for half that, I bet you'd find something quick.
They aren't paying 100k for some fresh grad they need to train. They will pay them to train their AI models at the lowest possible price point though.
Dozens
the local news outlet SFGate estimated it was as many as 200
No mention of how many people are graduating
Reee it's difficult to estimate how big of a deal this was if the total number of participants isn't mentioned.
On wiki it says there are about 1700 undergrads per class, so if it's that plus some grad students at graduation, 200 walking out could be maybe a tenth of the attendees. Sounds pretty noticeable.
Very rare for the ceremony to be the entire graduating class. Its usually broken down by school.
200 is over sixteen dozens
That's almost dozens of dozens.
It's more than one and one third dozen dozens.
It's about a bakers bakers dozen bakers bakers dozens.
Also known as a dirty dozen
1.38̄*dozen^2
This Stanford math is over my head.
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How much is that in his majesty’s imperial units?
2 hectopeople or 1.6 decadozen
That's almost one full stoneperson!
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Their ego is disgusting, every time they open their mouths they are met with disdain and they still don't get it.
Because this diverges from their day to day and how everyone else treats them. "Surely these students are the ones that are wrong".
They are probably aware but want to campaign in an effort to change public perception of AI. It will provide less resistance and more opportunities for their company as this gets forced through.
Also, USA lives in a world where someone's word holds no accountability. All companies/media needs to do is keep pushing how great AI is and people will start to believe it. Facts to support their opinions aren't necessary. The blowback seen is probably from the minority of people who care about fact checking and accountability.
They don't need to. They're still making more each year than you or I will make in our entire lives.
They make more than we’ll make in our lives before lunch. Every day.
His current pay package is about $233m/yr. That's about $112k/day. I think your math might be off. Even if you make $7.25/hr, you'll make $112k in just over eight years. Still an absurd disparity, but not as far as you say.
BLS lists the median annual salary as $62k. So, he does make more money in a half day than the majority of Americans make in a year. There's no way any one person deserves that much money.
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Pichai [...]
"It is the last two letters of my last name, after all."
So, abbreviations start from the rear end now?
Sundar PitchAI
That or he's, accidentally or otherwise, saying AI is full of shit
Ah, yes, that's probably it: his rear end is full of shit.
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