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Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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This is a weird deal? Meta buys a non-controlling stake and says no customers will be affected but the CEO and others are leaving Scale for Meta. Meta also says they won’t have access to competitor data but at 49% ownership they get major investor rights? Sounds like an acqui-kill to me?

Would buying 49% prevent any government investigations into the deal?

Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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post #7

This is a weird deal? Meta buys a non-controlling stake and says no customers will be affected but the CEO and others are leaving Scale for Meta. Meta also says they won’t have access to competitor data but at 49% ownership they get major investor rights? Sounds like an acqui-kill to me?

Strikes me more as an attempt to maintain plausible deniability if/when the FTC comes knocking

Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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These numbers are absurd

Yeah, half of my AI skepticism isn't that the tools don't work. It's that I'm having a tough time figuring out how these things are ever going to produce ROI.

Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.

Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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post #13

These numbers are absurd

Yeah, half of my AI skepticism isn't that the tools don't work. It's that I'm having a tough time figuring out how these things are ever going to produce ROI. Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.

Scale AI has deep cooperation with military agencies and a fresh large contract with the Gulf state with the largest US military presence. It's likely they're building a new generation of combat command systems and the like, consolidation of surveillance and management tooling in the ongoing and future US wars isn't surprising.

Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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Below article has interesting info but it's paywalled. Does anyone have a way to read this?

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/fame-feud-and-fortun...

Edit (as per wikipedia):

"Lucy Guo was fired two years later in 2018." She was a co-founder.

Re: Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab

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post #16
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, half of my AI skepticism isn't that the tools don't work. It's that I'm having a tough time figuring out how these things are ever going to produce ROI. Like, at some point the end product needs to be a literal genie's lamp or fountain of youth.

Scale AI has deep cooperation with military agencies and a fresh large contract with the Gulf state with the largest US military presence. It's likely they're building a new generation of combat command systems and the like, consolidation of surveillance and management tooling in the ongoing and future US wars isn't surprising.

[Okay so the third option that I thought of but decided not to put down was: literal genie's lamp, fountain of youth, or robot army. Because then who cares if you collapse the economy if AGI, you'll be safe with your robot army. Not particularly happy that this option is potentially not far from the mark.]
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