{"id":951317,"date":"2025-07-31T08:24:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951317"},"modified":"2025-07-31T08:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T03:15:14","slug":"researcher-is-a-relic-term-elon-musk-says-there-are-only-engineers-at-xai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/31\/researcher-is-a-relic-term-elon-musk-says-there-are-only-engineers-at-xai\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Researcher is a relic term\u2019: Elon Musk says there are \u2018only engineers \u2019 at xAI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>xAI founder Elon Musk is no longer calling his employees \u201cresearchers\u201d. Doing away with this nomenclature, he marked a clear division between \u201cresearcher\u201d and \u201cengineer,\u201d calling it a two-tier approach to name a system, commenting on its redundancy. <\/p>\n<p>In a post on Wednesday, Musk said that the distinction was a \u201cthinly masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system,\u201d in an X (formerly Twitter). To emphasise his narrative, he said, \u201cThere are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI founder Elon Musk is no longer calling his employees \u201cresearchers\u201d. Doing away with this nomenclature, he marked a clear division between \u201cresearcher\u201d and \u201cengineer,\u201d calling it a two-tier approach to name a system, commenting on its redundancy. In a post on Wednesday, Musk said that the distinction was a \u201cthinly masked way of describing a two-tier engineering system,\u201d in an X (formerly Twitter). To emphasise his narrative, he said, \u201cThere are only engineers. Researcher is a relic term from academia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}