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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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Post by djmips »

AndrewKemendo wrote: post #13

This is actually really interesting because I’ve never actually seen anything coming out of Lecun‘s group that made it into production that does not mean that nothing did, but this indicates to me that FAIR work never actually made it out of the lab and basically everything that Lecun has been working on has been shelved That makes sense to me as he and most of the AI divas have focused on their “Governor of AI” role…

>I’ll be interested to see how this shakes out for who is leading AI at Meta going forward

Alexandr Wang

Re: Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division

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Post by ejcho »

xrd wrote: post #26
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

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.

"Load bearing." Isn't this the same guy that sold his company for $14B. I hope his "impact and scope" are quantifiably and equivalently "load bearing" or is this a way to sacrifice some of his privileged former colleagues at the Zuck altar.

the man is a generational grifter, got to give him credit for that at least

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Post by freedomben »

ceejayoz wrote: post #3

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.

I can actually relate to that, especially in a big co where you hire fast. I think it's shitty to over-hire and lay off, but I've definitely worked in many teams where there were just too many people (many very smart) with their own sense of priorities and goals, and it makes it hard to anything done. This is especially true when you over-divide areas of responsiblity.

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Post by cheeze »

asdev wrote: post #17

they've lost on basically all fronts of AI right?

I'm confused about Meta AI in general. It's _horrible_ compared to every other LLM I use. Customer ingress is weird to me too - do they expect people to use Facebook chat (Messenger) to talk to Meta AI mainly? I've tried it on messenger, the website, and have run llama locally.

My (completely uninformed, spitballing) thinking is that Facebook doesn't care that much about AI for end users. THe benefit here is for their ads business, etc.

Unclear if they have been successful at all so far.

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Post by moomoo11 »

r32gsaf wrote: post #70

AI has no demand, they overhired, Wang has no clue what to do next and fires people to make an impact. Other AI companies will soon follow.

Maybe some of them, especially the wrapper companies, would be wise to shut down.

And maybe solve some of the actual problems out there that need addressing.

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Post by username223 »

rdtsc wrote: post #31

> 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…

> ”By reducing the size of our team, fewer conversations will be required to make a decision,..."

I got serious uncanny valley vibes from that quote as well. Can anyone prove that "Alexandr Wang" is an actual human, and not just a server rack with a legless avatar in the Metaverse?

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