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Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Maybe this time investors will realize how incompetent these leaders are? How do you go from 250mil contracts to freezes in under a month?

> How do you go from 250mil contracts to freezes in under a month?

Easy, you finished building up a team. You can only have so many cooks.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

#32

What I don't get is that they are gunning for the people that brought us the innovations we are working with right now. How often does it happen that someone really strikes gold a second time in research at such a high level? It's not a sport.

Who else would you hire? With a topic as complex as this, it seems most likely that the people who have been working at the bleeding edge for years will be able to continue to innovate. At the very least, they are a much safer bet than some unproven randos.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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as an outsider, what I find the most impressive is how long it took for people to realize this was a bubble. Has been for a few years now.

From the Big Short: Lawrence Fields: "Actually, no one can see a bubble. That's what makes it a bubble." Michael Burry: "That's dumb, Lawrence. There are always markers."

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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post #28

> Sam Altman, OpenAI’s chief executive, has compared hype around AI to the dotcom bubble at the turn of the century Sam is the main one driving the hype, that's rich...

Or now that he has the money he wants people to stop investing in the competition.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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post #24

I just did a phone screen with Meta, and the interviewer asked for Euclidean distance between two points; they definitely have some nerds in the building.

That's like 8th grade math, what am misunderstanding about your comment?

E: wasn't the only one.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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post #2

Maybe this time investors will realize how incompetent these leaders are? How do you go from 250mil contracts to freezes in under a month?

Maybe this time the top posters on HN should stop criticizing one of the top performing founder CEOs of the last 20 years who built an insane business, made many calls that were called stupid at the time (WhatsApp), and many that were actually stupid decisions.

Like do people here really think making some bad decisions is incompetence?

If you do, your perfectionism is probably something you need to think about.

Or please reply to me with your exact perfect predictions of how AI will play out in the next 5, 10, 20 years and then tell us how you would run a trillion dollar company. Oh and please revisit your comment in these timeframes

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