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Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by twoodfin »

weird_trousers wrote: post #3

So much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.

This stuff is ridiculously important for healthcare: It’s a demographic fact that both the US and the world at large are simply not training enough doctors and nurses to provide today’s standard of care at current staffing levels as the population ages.

We need massive productivity boosts in medicine just as fast as we can get them.

Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

hooloovoo_zoo wrote: post #12
dang wrote: post #48

[stub for offtopicness] Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432526

Poor Sam Altman, 300B worth of trade secrets bought out from under him for a paltry few hundred million.

> Poor Sam Altman, 300B worth of trade secrets bought out from under him for a paltry few hundred million

Sorry, you don't lose people when you treat them well. Add to that Altman's penchant for organisational dysfunction and the (in part resulting) illiquidity of OpenAI's employees' equity-not-equity and this makes a lot of sense. Broadly, it's good for the American AI ecosystem for this competition for talent to exist.

Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

jxjnskkzxxhx wrote: post #8
dang wrote: post #48

[stub for offtopicness] Please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44432526

Is mark Zuckerberg systematically behind the curve on every hype?

> Is mark Zuckerberg systematically behind the curve on every hype?

Trend following with chutzpah, particulalry through acquisitions, has been a winning strategy for Zuckerberg and his shareholders.

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Post by cheevly »

weird_trousers wrote: post #3

So much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.

Do you realize how much health-related research Zuckerburg’s foundation does? There was literally a post on here last week about it, geez.

Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by xvector »

weird_trousers wrote: post #3

So much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.

Superintelligence or even just AGI short circuits all our problems.

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Post by xvector »

dekhn wrote: post #4
weird_trousers wrote: post #3

So much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.

zuck funds health research (a lot, and very ML focused) already

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Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #13
hooloovoo_zoo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Poor Sam Altman, 300B worth of trade secrets bought out from under him for a paltry few hundred million.

> Poor Sam Altman, 300B worth of trade secrets bought out from under him for a paltry few hundred million Sorry, you don't lose people when you treat them well. Add to that Altman's penchant for organisational dysfunction and the (in part resulting) illiquidity of OpenAI's employees' equity-not-equity and this makes a lot of sense. Broadly, it's good for the American AI ecosystem for this competition for talent to ex…

In retrospect, I wonder if the original ethos of the non-profit structure of OpenAI was a scam from the get go, or just woefully naive. And to emphasize, I'm not talking just about Altman.

That is, when you create this cutting edge, powerful tech, it turns out that people are willing to pay gobs of money for it. So if somehow OpenAI had managed to stay as a non-profit (let's pretend training didn't cost a bajillion dollars), they still would have lost all of their top engineers to deeper pockets if they didn't pursue an aggressive monetization strategy.

That's why I want to gag a little when I hear all this flowery language about how AI will cure all these diseases and be a huge boon to humanity. Let's get real - people are so hyped about this because they believe it will make them rich. And it most likely will, and to be clear, I don't blame them. The only thing I blame folks for is trying to wrap "I'd like to get rich" goals in moralistic BS.

Re: Everyone Mark Zuckerberg has hired so far for Meta's 'superintelligence' team

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Post by hn_throwaway_99 »

twoodfin wrote: post #11
weird_trousers wrote: post #3

So much wasted money it makes me sick… There are so much money needed to solve another problems, especially for health. I don’t blame the new comers, but Zuckerberg.

This stuff is ridiculously important for healthcare: It’s a demographic fact that both the US and the world at large are simply not training enough doctors and nurses to provide today’s standard of care at current staffing levels as the population ages. We need massive productivity boosts in medicine just as fast as we can get them.

I sincerely doubt this understaffing of medical professionals is a technology problem, and I believe it much more likely to be an economic structural problem. And overall, I think that powerful generative AI will make these economic structural problems much worse.
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