This is a scary situation and shows how we are heading to the 3rd world situation where everyone has to work 100 hours just to survive. Is that the USA we want?
Earlier, there were people who wanted to work 100 hour weeks but choice. They got the rewards for this labor. Soon, everyone will have to do 100 hour weeks and be paid normal regular wages. You will get something more if you do 140 hours. Remember the upper limit is 168 hours in a week. No one gets more, ever unless you figure out a way to bend time.
What are the impacts?
1. Mental health epidemic. People work and do nothing else.
2. Impaired relationships. They don't have friends, no boy/girl friends, no wives or husbands. Everyone is at work.
3. No one has children. You need to have a partner and then have sex with them. No one has time anymore so maybe AI kids?
We now have a "9-9-6" culture coming in. That is 72 hours. Wait until we have a 7-10-7 culture comes in.
We are leaving a terrible world for our kids.
AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-race-tech-workers-schedule-1ea9a116?st=jgCmPW&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Earlier, there were people who wanted to work 100 hour weeks but choice. They got the rewards for this labor. Soon, everyone will have to do 100 hour weeks and be paid normal regular wages. You will get something more if you do 140 hours. Remember the upper limit is 168 hours in a week. No one gets more, ever unless you figure out a way to bend time.
What are the impacts?
1. Mental health epidemic. People work and do nothing else.
2. Impaired relationships. They don't have friends, no boy/girl friends, no wives or husbands. Everyone is at work.
3. No one has children. You need to have a partner and then have sex with them. No one has time anymore so maybe AI kids?
We now have a "9-9-6" culture coming in. That is 72 hours. Wait until we have a 7-10-7 culture comes in.
We are leaving a terrible world for our kids.
AI Workers Are Putting In 100-Hour Workweeks to Win the New Tech Arms Race
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-race-tech-workers-schedule-1ea9a116?st=jgCmPW&reflink=article_copyURL_share
Quote:
Josh Batson no longer has time for social media.
The AI researcher's only comparable dopamine hit these days is on Anthropic's Slack workplace-messaging channels, where he explores chatter about colleagues' theories and experiments on large language models and architecture.
Batson is among a group of core artificial-intelligence researchers and executives who are facing a relentless grind, racing to keep pace with a seemingly endless cycle of disruption in pursuit of systems with superhuman intelligence.
Inside Silicon Valley's biggest AI labs, top researchers and executives are regularly working 80 to 100 hours a week. Several top researchers compared the circumstances to war.
"We're basically trying to speedrun 20 years of scientific progress in two years," said Batson, a research scientist at Anthropic. Extraordinary advances in AI systems are happening "every few months," he said. "It's the most interesting scientific question in the world right now."
Executives and researchers at Microsoft, Anthropic, Alphabet's Google, Meta Platforms, Apple and OpenAI have said they see their work as critical to a seminal moment in history as they duel with rivals and seek new ways to bring AI to the masses.
Some of them are now millionaires many times over, but several said they haven't had time to spend their new fortunes.
The competition for AI talent kicked into high gear when Mark Zuckerberg began poaching top AI workers from rivals, offering multimillion-dollar pay packages. That showed how the work of a relatively small cluster of researchers and executives was one of the world's most precious resources. Now companies and the workers themselves are seeking to wring as much work as possible from these individuals each and every day.
"Everyone is working all the time, it's extremely intense, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of natural stopping point," Madhavi Sewak, a distinguished researcher at Google's DeepMind, said in a recent interview.
