gathering people from places like Google, Intel, IBM, and DARPA
Though, people from these places would undoubtedly have skills in management, PR and marketing, teamwork, narrow AI, etc that would be extremely useful as supporting infrastructure. Supporting infrastructure totally counts.
Oh, hell yeah. Anna’s side can recruit them, no problem. And I’m certainly not saying that no one who works at these organizations could make the cut for the Final Programmers. Just that you can’t hire Final Programmers at random from anywhere, not even Google.
Though, people from these places would undoubtedly have skills in management, PR and marketing, teamwork, narrow AI, etc that would be extremely useful as supporting infrastructure. Supporting infrastructure totally counts.
Oh, hell yeah. Anna’s side can recruit them, no problem. And I’m certainly not saying that no one who works at these organizations could make the cut for the Final Programmers. Just that you can’t hire Final Programmers at random from anywhere, not even Google.