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Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Because the AI works so well, or because it doesn't? > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision, and each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes in a memo seen by Axios. That's kinda wild. I'm kinda shocked they put it in writing.

Yep: just reduce the number to one and you find the optimum for those metrics.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just assume they over hired. Too much hype for AI. Everyone wants to build the framework people use for AI nobody wants to build the actual tools that make AI useful.

There is a real question of if a more productive developer with AI is actually what the market wants right now. It may actually want something else entirely, and that is people that can innovate with AI. Just about everyone can be "better" with AI, so I'm not sure if this is actually an advantage (the baselines just got lifted for all).

I don't know if this is true. It's good for some things... Learning something new or hashing out a quick algorithm or function.

But I've found it leads to lazy behaviour (by me admittedly) and buggier code than before.

Everytime I drop the AI and manually write my own code it is just better.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes It's only a matter of time before the superintelligence decides to lay off the managers too. Soon Mr. Wang will be gone and we'll see press releases like: > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer convers…

> It's coming any day now! I'm loving this juxtaposition of companies hyping up imminent epoch-defining AGI, while simultaneously dedicating resources to building TikTok But Worse or adding erotica support to ChatGPT. Interesting priorities.

> ... adding erotica support to ChatGPT.

Well, all the people with no jobs are going to need something to fill their time.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes It's only a matter of time before the superintelligence decides to lay off the managers too. Soon Mr. Wang will be gone and we'll see press releases like: > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer convers…

This is phase 1 of the so-called "AGI". Probably automated themselves out of their roles as "AGI" and now super intelligence "ASI" has been "achieved internally". The billion dollar question is.. where is it?

I'm guessing it's in Gallatin, Tennessee, based on what they've made public.

https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/meta-brings-data-...

But maybe not:

https://open.substack.com/pub/datacenterrichness/p/meta-empt...

Other options are Ohio or Louisiana.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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> while the company continues to hire workers for its newly formed superintelligence team, TBD Lab. It's coming any day now! > "... each person will be more load-bearing and have more scope and impact,” Wang writes It's only a matter of time before the superintelligence decides to lay off the managers too. Soon Mr. Wang will be gone and we'll see press releases like: > ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer convers…

> It's coming any day now! I'm loving this juxtaposition of companies hyping up imminent epoch-defining AGI, while simultaneously dedicating resources to building TikTok But Worse or adding erotica support to ChatGPT. Interesting priorities.

> adding erotica support to ChatGPT

They really need that business model.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe because there are just very few really useful AI tools that can be made? Few tools are ok with sometimes right, sometimes wrong output.

There are N useful AI tools that can be made.

Where N is less than infinity.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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“If I work in/with AI my job will be safe” isn’t true after all.

Nobody's job is safe when the bubble pops. (Except for the "leadership" needed to start hyping the next bubble.)

Invest in the pubs and bars nearby, when the bubble pops they’ll be full.

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The new head is Chinese. There was a screenshot on Blind of his org at Apple and it was well over a hundred nearly exclusively Chinese reports

Ethnically he is Chinese, but he was born here.

Shengjia Zhao was not born here.
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