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ramones13 | 2 years ago

Metaverse? Llama? They’re doing both.

How well they’re doing those is up for debate, but they’re doing interesting stuff too.

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jdm2212|2 years ago

Metaverse is exactly my point -- they've incinerated vast amounts of investor money with nothing to show for it. They could've and should've just plowed that money into hundreds of startups.

LLAMA is also exactly my point -- LLMs are pretty well-proven at this point. If you spend $X on machine learning researchers, you can get an LLM with Y parameters that is useful for various tasks like sentiment analysis, machine translation, etc. Facebook should be spending money on that because they have lots of cash, data centers, and ML researchers so they can do this at scale that only a few others can (Google, Microsoft/OpenAI and maybe Amazon).

ramones13|2 years ago

That seems like a lot of gross simplifications with hindsight bias.