Re:Meta fed its AI on everything adults have publicly posted...
by pjs_ on Friday September 13, 2024 @02:26PM
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There's a fun retrospective PoV which is that Silicon Valley has been through a sequence of consecutive hype waves, each of which has been viewed with derision as mega-scale fraud or brainrot:
- Video games (epic waste of time and moral debasement) gave us GPUs and NVIDIA
- Social media (rage bait-fueled argument machine and cat pic repository) gave us a huge corpus of text on which to train language models. Yes scientific papers and Wikipedia are necessary but probably not sufficient?
- Crypto (fraud, giant waste of resources) gave us a generation of young people who were comfortable building ludicrously oversized GPU clusters, and to some extent funded NVIDIA and TSMC R&D
all of which led to where we are with AI, which is that it is making (in my humble opinion) impressive dents in the problem of solving intelligence -- cue HN commenters telling me that AI is a giant fraud and waste of resources also :)
- Video games (epic waste of time and moral debasement) gave us GPUs and NVIDIA
- Social media (rage bait-fueled argument machine and cat pic repository) gave us a huge corpus of text on which to train language models. Yes scientific papers and Wikipedia are necessary but probably not sufficient?
- Crypto (fraud, giant waste of resources) gave us a generation of young people who were comfortable building ludicrously oversized GPU clusters, and to some extent funded NVIDIA and TSMC R&D
all of which led to where we are with AI, which is that it is making (in my humble opinion) impressive dents in the problem of solving intelligence -- cue HN commenters telling me that AI is a giant fraud and waste of resources also :)