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Posted by matthieu_bl 3 hours ago

Mark Zuckerberg creating new Applied AI engineering company, reorganises teams(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
90 points | 51 commentspage 2
skeptrune 2 hours ago|
shoutout Zuck for making the call. seems right given they haven't had any good model releases since bringing him on
railgunmerlin 2 hours ago||
can't even really blame Alex for taking the deal, why would Zuckerberg not do more due diligence? Wang has created (a relatively) successful subcontracting operation but that doesn't mean anything about research or new models
alexbike 2 hours ago||
I have a feeling we will start seeing a lot of this...
adamnemecek 2 hours ago||
Who could have predicted that a guy who has no experience developing superintelligence will fail at developing superintelligence.
adverbly 2 hours ago||
Fail fast
grim_io 2 hours ago||
I wish I could fuck up this much this often and still get richer every day.
bgun 2 hours ago|
Say what you will about Zuck, he's made investors a trillion dollars. If they cared about his occasionally being wrong and losing a few billion here or there, it's not showing up in the stock price.
dzonga 2 hours ago||
zuck panicked.

the metaverse didn't pan out.

other companies were making inroads on A.I and zuck felt flat-footed.

the crazy shit is in an era where most content on social media is A.I generated - zuck should've pivoted to banning A.I content but eh what do I know

gdulli 2 hours ago|
I don't know how he could ban it. AI can't be used to reliably detect AI for the same reasons it's unreliable at other tasks. He didn't really have a choice but to sell the same grift everyone else is selling. He's stuck in a prisoners' dilemma that everyone is losing except a few people at the top.
measurablefunc 2 hours ago||
It doesn't matter how many "wunderkinds" Zuckerberg pays off to work at Meta. Meta is not an AI company so they will never produce anything of relevance in that domain.
retr0rocket 2 hours ago||
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jjee 2 hours ago||
I don’t see meta around in 10 years frankly. They are very vulnerable to technological shifts they aren’t leading.
add-sub-mul-div 2 hours ago|||
Meta, Reddit, Twitter, they're staying around. Too much of the population has been captured in those places and is too passive and docile to seek out better options. The disruption we've seen in the last with social networks won't happen anymore. These places are so bad already that there's no reason to think the remaining people will leave for any reason.
brcmthrowaway 2 hours ago||||
Same with apple
fmajid 2 hours ago|||
Meta is the smallest but also the most profitable of the FAANGs in terms of percentage profit margin at 30%, vs 25% for Apple and Google and much less for Amazon and Netflix. Their position in social networks is a license to print money and unless humanity goes fully autistic all of a sudden, this is unlikely to change, technological shifts notwhitstanding.

The one thing that can kill them is the fact each successive generation avoids their fuddy-duddy parents' social network, so Boomers and Gen X are on Facebook, Millennials on Instagram and Gen Z on TikTok. If TikTok had been killed as was originally the plan, they would have benefited massively, but Trump does not trust Zuck and made sure it went to his son Barron and the Ellisons.

bikesharing 2 hours ago|
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