"Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring after he personally offered 250M to a single person and the budget is now gone."
Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#232Mark created the bubble. Other investors saw few opportunities for investment. So they put more Money into a few companies.
What we need is more independent and driven innovation.
Right right now the greatest obstacle to independent innovation is the massive data bank the bigger companies have.
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#233I really do wonder if any of those rock star $100m++ hires managed to get a 9-figure sign-on bonus, or if the majority have year(s) long performance clauses. Imagine being paid generational wealth, and then the house of cards comes crashing down a couple of months later.
I'm not an academic, but it kinda feels strange to me to stipulate in your contract that you must invent harder
Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#234That's a man with conviction
Sorry, I was in the metaverse just now. I took my headset off though — could you please repeat that?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#235Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"abundance of talent" is not something I'd ascribe to Scale.
Yeah, Scale was Amazon's Mechanical Turk for the AI era.
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#236Really feels like it went from "AI is going to destroy everyone's jobs forever" to "whoops bubble" in about 6 weeks.
Even that came after "AI is going to make itself smarter so fast that it's inevitably going to kill us all and must be regulated" talk ended. Remember when that was the big issue?
Haven't heard about that in a while.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#237Earlier quoted context omitted.
1000 people can't get a woman to have a child faster than 1 person. So it depends on the type of problem you're trying to solve. If you're trying to build a bunch of Wendy's locations, it's clearly better to have more construction workers. It's less clear that if you're trying to build SGI that you're better off with 1000 people than 10. It might be! But it might not be, too. Who knows for certain til post-ex?
> 1000 people can't get a woman to have a child faster than 1 person. I always get slightly miffed about business comparisons to gestation: getting 9 women pregnant won't get you a child in 1 month. Sure, if you want one child. But that's not what business is often doing, now is it? The target is never "one child". The target is "10 children", or "100 children" or "1000 children". You are definitely going to overrun…
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#238Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
It's an entertainment tool. Like a television or playstation. Only a fool would think social media is anything more.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#239Makes you think whether llama progress is not doing too well and/or perhaps we're entering a plateau for llm architecture development.
The article got me thinking that there's some sort of bottle neck that makes scaling astronomical or the value just not really there. 1. Buy up top talent from other's working in this space 2. See what they produce over say, 6mo. to a year 3. Hire a corpus of regular ICs to see what _they_ produce 4. Open source the model to see if any programmer at all can produce something novel with a pretty robust model. Observe…
> Observe that nothing amazing has really come out
I wouldn't say so. The problem is rather that some actually successful applications of such AI models are not what companies like Meta want to be associated with. Think into directions like AI boyfriend/girlfriend (a very active scene, and common usage of locally hosted LLMs), or roleplaying (in a very broad sense). For such applications, it matters a lot less if in some boundary cases the LLM produces strange results.
If you want to get an impression of such scenes, google "character.ai" (roleplaying), or for AI boyfriend/girlfriend have a look at https://old.reddit.com/r/MyBoyfriendIsAI/
Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears
#240I 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...
Compare to the speed of light, c at your two reference frames