Guaranteed this is them cleaning out the old guard, its either axe them, or watch a brutal political game between legacy employees and new LLM AI talent
> ...talent
More like "scientific research regurgitators".
Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division
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#202This says more about Meta than about where AI is heading. For me personally my work, my life has transformed dramatically, literally, since 2022, since OpenAI launched ChatGPT and what followed then. I feel like having a dozen assistants who help me levarage my skills exponentially, do tedious work, do things I never had the time and resources to do. I see it in my salary, in the results I produce, in the projects I can accept and do.
My life after LLMs is not the same anymore. Literally.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why are you asking questions about their PR department coordinated "Company missions"? Let me summarise their real missions: 1. Power and money 2. Power and money 3. Power and money How does AI help them make money and gain more power? I can give you a few ways...
Sometimes they mix it up and go for money and power.
This got me good.
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#205I love the sound of employees being more 'load bearing'. Meta seems like a fun place to work for (for however many months you last).
'load bearing' - that might be a veiled complaint about their physical office environment.
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#206Meta is fumbling hard. Winning the AI race is about marketing at this point - the difference between the models is negligible. Chat GPT is the one on everyone's lips outside of technology, and in the media. They have a platform by which to push some kind of assistant but where is it? I log into facebook and it's buried in the sidebar as Meta AI. Why aren't they shoving it down my throat? They have a huge platform of…
OpenAI marketing and hype feels like things we've seen before. Just like Adam Neuman who was reinventing the concept of workspaces as a community. Just like Elizabeth Holmns who was revolutionizing blood testing. Just like SBF who pioneered a new model for altruistic capitalism. And so many others. Beware of prophets selling you on the idea that they alone can do something nobody has ever done before.
> Just like SBF who pioneered a new model for autistic capitalism
Oh, wow. I think you meant altruistic capitalism.
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#207Earlier 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.
I haven’t even thought of Meta as a competitor when it comes to AI. I’m a semi-pro user and all I think of when I think of AI is OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek/Qwen, plus all the image/video models (Flux, Seedance, Veo, Sora) Meta is not even in the picture
How convenient: the AI boss, LeCun just is not interested in that stuff!
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes they mix it up and go for money and power.
sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power.
> sometimes they manage to meld it into one goal, because money is power.
Money is a measure of power, but it is not in fact power.
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#209Because 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.
This is happening everywhere. In every industry. Our economy is being propped up by this. From manufacturing to software engineering, this is how the US economy is continuing to "flourish" from a macroeconomic perspective. Margin is being preserved by reducing liabilities and relying on a combination of increased workload and automation that is "good enough" to get to the next step—but assumes there is a next step an…
There is plenty of evidence that the technology has plateaued. Is there any evidence to the contrary?
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#210From a quick online search: - OpenAI's mission is to build safe AI, and ensure AI's benefits are as widely and evenly distributed as possible. - Google's mission is to organise the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful. - Meta's mission is to build the future of human connection and the technology that makes it possible. Lets just take these three companies, and their self-defined mission…
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