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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 cm2012 »

GoatInGrey wrote: post #322
baby wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone using LLMs daily, it's always interesting to read something about AI being a bubble or just hype. I think you're going to miss the train, I am personally convinced this is the technology of our lifetime.

You are welcome to share how AI has transformed a revenue generating role. Personally, I have never seen a durable example of it, despite my excitement with the tech. In my world, AI has been little more than a productivity boost in very narrowly scoped areas. For instance, generating an initial data mapping of source data against a manually built schema for the individual to then review and clean up. In this case, A…

I know a company that replaced their sales call center with an AI calling bot instead. The bot got better sales and higher feedback scores from customers.

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by thefourthchime »

miki123211 wrote: post #276
alsetmusic wrote: post #191

It almost seems as though the record-setting bonuses they were dolling out to hire the top minds in AI might have been a little shortsighted. A couple of years ago, I asked a financial investment person about AI as a trick question. She did well by recommending investing in companies that invest in AI (like MS) but who had other profitable businesses (like Azure). I was waiting for her to put her foot in her mouth an…

I have an overwhelming feeling that what we're trying to do here is "Netflix over DialUp." We're clearly seeing what AI will eventually be able to do, just like many VOD, smartphone and grocery delivery companies of the 90s did with the internet. The groundwork has been laid, and it's not too hard to see the shape of things to come. This tech, however, is still far too immature for a lot of use cases. There's enough…

I'm starting to agree with this viewpoint. As the technology seems to solidify to roughly what we can do now, the aspirations are going to have to get cut back until there's a couple more breakthroughs.

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Post by realo »

echelon wrote: post #312
skeezyboy wrote: post #296

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>I have an overwhelming feeling that what we're trying to do here is "Netflix over DialUp." I totally agree with you... though the other day, I did think the same thing about the 8bit era of video games.

Speaking of Netflix - I think the image, video, audio, world model, diffusion domains should be treated 100% separately from LLMs. They are not the same thing. Image and video AI is nothing short of revolutionary. It's already having huge impact and it's disrupting every single business it touches. I've spoken with hundreds of medium and large businesses about it. They're changing how they bill clients and budget pro…

As long as you do not make ads with four-fingered hands, like those clowns ... :)

https://www.lapresse.ca/arts/chroniques/2025-07-08/polemique...

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by dghlsakjg »

siliconc0w wrote: post #323

It never really made sense for Meta to get into AI, the motivations were always pretty thin and it seemed like they just wanted to ride the wave.

Meta's business model is to capture attention - largely with "content" - so they can charge lots of money to sprinkle ads amongst that content.

I can see a lot of utility for Meta to get deeply involved in the unlimited custom content generating machine. They have a lot of data about what sort of content gets people to spend more time with them. They now have the ability to endlessly create exactly what it is that keeps you most engaged and looking at ads.

Frankly, content businesses that get their revenue from ads are one of the most easily monetizable ways to use the outputs of AI.

Yes, it will pollute the internet to the point of making almost all information untrustable, but think of how much money can be extracted along the way!

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Post by ghurtado »

balamatom wrote: post #351
torginus wrote: post #228

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It boggles the mind that this kind of management is what it takes to create one of the most valuable companies in the world (and becoming one of the world's richest in the process).

I'll differ from the siblingposters who compare it to the luck of the draw, essentially explaining this away as the excusable randomness of confusion rather than the insidious evil of stupidity; while the "it's fraud" perspective presumes a solid grasp of which things out there are not fraud besides those which are coercion, but that's not a subject I'm interested in having an opinion about. Instead, think of whales…

why is there so much of this on HN? I'm on a few social networks, but this is the only one where I find this kind of quasi-spiritual, stream of consciousness, word length steadily increasing, pseudo-technical, word salad diatribes?

It's very unique to this site and these type of comments all have an eerily similar vibe.

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Post by simianwords »

byyoung3 wrote: post #195

clickbait. read the article. they just spent several billion hiring a leadership team. They are doing an all hands to figure out what they need to do.

Its a bit frustrating that most don't read TFA instead vent out their AI angst the first opportunity they get.

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Post by rs186 »

cm2012 wrote: post #381
GoatInGrey wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are welcome to share how AI has transformed a revenue generating role. Personally, I have never seen a durable example of it, despite my excitement with the tech. In my world, AI has been little more than a productivity boost in very narrowly scoped areas. For instance, generating an initial data mapping of source data against a manually built schema for the individual to then review and clean up. In this case, A…

I know a company that replaced their sales call center with an AI calling bot instead. The bot got better sales and higher feedback scores from customers.

And I happen to know a different company that regrets their decision to do something similar:

https://tech.co/news/klarna-reverses-ai-overhaul

Is my anecdotal evidence any better than yours?

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Post by sameermanek »

cm2012 wrote: post #381
GoatInGrey wrote: post #322

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are welcome to share how AI has transformed a revenue generating role. Personally, I have never seen a durable example of it, despite my excitement with the tech. In my world, AI has been little more than a productivity boost in very narrowly scoped areas. For instance, generating an initial data mapping of source data against a manually built schema for the individual to then review and clean up. In this case, A…

I know a company that replaced their sales call center with an AI calling bot instead. The bot got better sales and higher feedback scores from customers.

I know a company that did the same and lost billions of dollars

Re: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fears

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Post by Jensson »

nirav72 wrote: post #318
miki123211 wrote: post #281

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I view success as the product of three factors, luck, skill and hard work. If any of these is 0, you fail, regardless of how high the other two are. Extraordinary success needs all three to be extremely high.

>luck, skill and hard work. Another key component is knowing the right people or the network you're in. I've known a few people that lacked 2 of those 3 things and yet somehow succeeded. Simply because of the people they knew.

> I've known a few people that lacked 2 of those 3 things and yet somehow succeeded

Succeeded in making something comparable to facebook? Who are those?

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