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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 thrown-0825 »

arcticbull wrote: post #86
thrown-0825 wrote: post #80

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laughs in metaverse

Absolutely, not everything they do will succeed but that's okay too, right? At this point their core products are used by 1 in 2 humans on earth. They need to get people to have more kids to expand their user base. They're gonna throw shit at the wall and not everything will stick, and they'll ship stuff that's not quite done, but they do have to keep trying; I can't bring myself to call that "failure."

their core product IS 1 of 2 humans on earth.

the product is used by advertisers to sell stuff to those humans.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by thrown-0825 »

billy99k wrote: post #89
thrown-0825 wrote: post #80

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laughs in metaverse

You laugh, but the Oculus is amazing. I use it as part of my daily workouts.

fuck oculus and lucky palmer.

I have hundreds of hours building and tinkering on the original kickstarter kit and then they sold to FB and shut down all the open source stuff.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by ojr »

nijave wrote: post #73
ojr wrote: post #54

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it wasn't just euclidean distance of course, it was this leetcode problem k closest points to origin https://leetcode.com/problems/k-closest-points-to-origin/des... , I thought if I needed a heap I would have to implement it myself didn't know I can use a library

I.e. the nearest neighbor problem. Presumably seeing if the candidate gave a naive solution and was able to optimize or find a more ideal solution

its not a nearest neighbor problem that is incorrect, they expect candidates to have the heap solution on the first go, you have 10-15 minutes to answer, no time to optimize, cheaters get blacklisted, welcome to the new reality

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by stogot »

boxed wrote: post #21
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #18

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I really don't understand this massive flip flopping. Do I have this timeline correct? * January, announce massive $65B AI spend * June, buy Scale AI for ~$15B, massive AI hiring spree, reportedly paying millions per year for low-level AI devs * July, announce some of the biggest data centers ever that will cost billions and use all of Ohio's water (hyperbolic) * Aug, freeze, it's a bubble! Someone please tell me I'v…

The most amusing has to be then Zuckerburg publishes his "thoughts" about how he's betting 100% on AI... written underneath the logo "Meta".

Zuck’s metaverse will be populated by AI characters running in the $65b manhattan data center

The MAU metric must continue to go up, and no one will know if it’s human or NPC

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by aleph_minus_one »

SoftTalker wrote: post #41

Nothing would give me a nicer feeling of schadenfreude than to see Meta, Google, and these other frothing-at-the-mouth AI hucksters take a bath on their bets.

Just until some month ago, people on HN were shouting people down who argued that spending big money on building an AI might not be a good idea ...

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by A_D_E_P_T »

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.

I suppose the trick is to have an ipad running GPT-voice-mode off to the side, next to your monitor. Instruct it to answer every question it overhears. This way you'll ace all of the "humiliation ritual" questions.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by prasadjoglekar »

abxyz wrote: post #82
onlyrealcuzzo wrote: post #18

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I really don't understand this massive flip flopping. Do I have this timeline correct? * January, announce massive $65B AI spend * June, buy Scale AI for ~$15B, massive AI hiring spree, reportedly paying millions per year for low-level AI devs * July, announce some of the biggest data centers ever that will cost billions and use all of Ohio's water (hyperbolic) * Aug, freeze, it's a bubble! Someone please tell me I'v…

The bubble narrative is coming from the outside. More likely is that the /acquisition/ of Scale has led to an abundance of talent that is being underutilised. If you give managers the option to hire, they will. Freezing hiring while reorganising is a sane strategy regardless of how well you are or are not doing.

This. TFA says this explicitly. Alexander Wang, the former Scale CEO is to approve any new hires.

They're taking stock of internal staff + new acquisitions and how to rationalize before further steps.

Now, I think AI investments are still a bubble, but that's not why FB is freezing hiring.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

beagle3 wrote: post #60
breitling wrote: post #45

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To be fair, buying Instagram so early + WhatsApp were great moves too.

But they were less “skill” and more “surveillance”. He had very good usage statistics (which he shouldn’t have had) of these apps through Onavo - a popular VPN app Facebook bought for the purpose of spying on what users are doing outside Facebook.

Instagram was acquired before Onavo.
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