Gonna need to have a talk with LLNL. I'm sure they didn't choose the name, but seems a tad leaning in to use the name of tech from Star Trek meant to produce untold abundance that instead became an unintentional doomsday device.
Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects
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#12That is — incredible
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#14That is — incredible
Really fascinating writeup — I particularly appreciated how they didn't hesitate to delve into the load bearing design choices — the implications are staggering.
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#15As a former proposal specialist (B2B, B2G, non DoD) I looked into the Genesis Mission procurement site and process.
Unless someone can correct me, the total amount of grant monies is $280,000,000 or so.
It became obvious that it’s not worth my time to engage in the “mission” as they call it, even if I could benefit some worthwhile causes.
That’s a pittance and pretty insulting to the purported benefit of funding scientific endeavors. I’m not even attempting to be political here. $280 Million versus $XX Billion for warfighting is a seriously gross misallocation of public monies, IMHO.
Total lackluster reporting on the scale and scope of the actual numbers, but not surprising.
Re: Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects
#16As a former proposal specialist (B2B, B2G, non DoD) I looked into the Genesis Mission procurement site and process. Unless someone can correct me, the total amount of grant monies is $280,000,000 or so. It became obvious that it’s not worth my time to engage in the “mission” as they call it, even if I could benefit some worthwhile causes. That’s a pittance and pretty insulting to the purported benefit of funding scie…
It's a weird world where $280M is not considered a lot of money.
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#18ELI5.
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#19This fits with my impression of the 'personality' of various models: Meta: Perceptive (strong vision) Gemini: Fastest Claude: Smartest OpenAI: Prettiest
Why do you think OpenAI is the prettiest?
Claude often makes better looking interfaces and designs. And I think OpenAI has solved more open math/ stats/ CS problems.
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#20I'm no fan of Facebook or its social effects but I can't deny the wonderful downstream effect of their open source.
Popular microscopy models like Cellpose[0] have leaned heavily on the cornucopia of open and SOTA power. I have no doubt thousands of biologists have benefitted from the capabilities these models bring. I think it was unthinkable just 5 years ago that a single biologist with just a laptop could do mass-segmentation at this kind of fidelity.
Then there's Napari and it's plugin ecosystem[1] that wouldn't exist without the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Again, I'm not trying to glaze them but as someone in the biotech/microscopy space I can't understate how often I use and benefit from their open source.
[0] https://cellpose.readthedocs.io/en/latest/models.html [1] https://chanzuckerberg.com/rfa/napari-plugin-grants/