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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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Post by arcticbull »

steve1977 wrote: post #42
roxolotl wrote: 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?

IMHO Mark Zuckerberg is a textbook case of someone who got lucky once by basically being in the right place at the right time, but who attributes his success to his skill. There’s probably a proper term for this.

He's really not. Facebook is an extremely well run organization. There's a lot to dislike about working there, and there's a lot to dislike about what they do, but you cannot deny they have been unbelievably successful at it. He really is good at his job, and part of that has been making bold bets and aggressively cutting unsuccessful bets.

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Post by brokencode »

zpeti wrote: post #39
roxolotl wrote: 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 pl…

I think many people just really dislike Zuckerberg as a human being and Meta as a company. Social media has seriously damaged society in many ways.

It’s not perfectionism, it’s a desire to dunk on what you don’t like whenever the opportunity arises.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by nijave »

ekianjo wrote: 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...

Facebook, Twitter, and some others made it out of the social media bubble. Some "gig" apps survived the gig bubble. Some crypto apps survived peak crypto hype

Not everyone has to lose which he's presumably banking on

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Post by motorest »

ekianjo wrote: 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...

> Sam is the main one driving the hype, that's rich...

It's also funny that he's been accusing those who accept better job offers as mercenaries. It does sound like the statements try to modulate competition both in the AI race and in acquiring the talent driving it.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by spicyusername »

sumedh wrote: post #56
steve1977 wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMHO Mark Zuckerberg is a textbook case of someone who got lucky once by basically being in the right place at the right time, but who attributes his success to his skill. There’s probably a proper term for this.

Except a company like Google with all its billions could not compete with Facebook. o Mark did something right.

Or it's really hard to overcome network effects, no matter how good your product is.

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Post by bitexploder »

steve1977 wrote: post #42
roxolotl wrote: 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?

IMHO Mark Zuckerberg is a textbook case of someone who got lucky once by basically being in the right place at the right time, but who attributes his success to his skill. There’s probably a proper term for this.

Ehh. You don’t get FB to where it is by being incompetent. Maybe he is not the right leader for today. Maybe. But you have to be right way, way more often than not to create a FB and get it to where it is. To operate from where it started to where it is just isn’t an accident or Dunning-Kruger.

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Post by ahartmetz »

haute_cuisine wrote: post #43
pretzellogician wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

All that's missing is an analogue to the pets.com Superbowl ad!

They should put AI into a blockchain and have a proper ICO.

Smart contracts sometimes fail because they are executed too literally. Fixing that needs something like judges, but automated - so AI! It will be perfect. /s

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by jaccola »

ojr wrote: 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.

People saying it is a high school maths problem! I'd like to see you provide a general method for accurately measuring the distance between two arbitrary points in space...
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