Anyway here's the sales page. the widget subscription is so premium you won't even miss the subscription fee.
It's weird. In the late 2010s it seems like people were wising up to the idea that you can't implicitly trust big tech companies, even if they have nap pods in the office and have their first day employees wear funny hats. Then ChatGPT lands and everyone is back to fully trusting these companies when they say they are mere months from turning the world upside down with their AI, which they say every month for the last 12-24 months.
In the 2000s we only had Microsoft, and none of us were confused as to whether to trust Bill Gates or not...
https://www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
> What makes this interview – and really, this paper — so remarkable is how thoroughly and aggressively it attacks every bit of marketing collateral the AI movement has. Acemoglu specifically questions the belief that AI models will simply get more powerful as we throw more data and GPU capacity at them, and specifically ask a question: what does it mean to "double AI's capabilities"? How does that actually make something like, say, a customer service rep better? And this is a specific problem with the AI fantasists' spiel. They heavily rely on the idea that not only will these large language models (LLMs) get more powerful, but that getting more powerful will somehow grant it the power to do...something. As Acemoglu says, "what does it mean to double AI's capabilities?"
I’m about Zucks age, and have been following his career/impact since college; it’s been roughly a cosine graph of doing good or evil over time :) I think we’re at 2pi by now, and if you are correct maybe it hockey-sticks up and to the right. I hope so.
If LLMs end up being the platform of the future, Zuck doesn't want OpenAI/Microsoft to be able to monopolize it.
> Other companies sell widgets. We have a bunch of widget-making machines and so we released a whole bunch of free widgets. We noticed that the widgets got better the more we made and expect widgets to become even better in future. Anyway here's the free download.
Given that Meta isn't actually selling their models?
Your response might make sense if it were to something OpenAI or Anthropic said, but as is I can't say I follow the analogy.
We should still be skeptical because often want to claim to be better or have unearned answers, but I don't think the motive to lie is quite as strong as a salesman's.
It's not peer-reviewable in any shape or form.
That said, doing that is slow and people will need to make decisions before that is done.
- flex
- deal a blow to Altmann
But it has nothing to do with LLMs (and interestingly enough they aren't opening their recommendation tech).