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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by Lionga on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:33PM (#45672436)
Maybe because there are just very few really useful AI tools that can be made?

Few tools are ok with sometimes right, sometimes wrong output.

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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by logtrees on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @01:59PM (#45672819)
There are N useful AI tools that can be made.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by lazide on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:05PM (#45672904)
Where N is less than infinity.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by logtrees on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:10PM (#45672965)
Is it known that there are fewer than infinity tools?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by jobigoud on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:40PM (#45673365)
I would assume that for any given tool you could make a "tool maker" tool.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by ModernMech on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @04:59PM (#45675070)
You make a tool, then a tool factory, then a tool factory factory, ad infinitum.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by logtrees on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:16PM (#45675857)
Sprinkle in minimization and virtualization and it's extremely cool!
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by kridsdale1 on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:03PM (#45675723)
There is no ASML toolmaker maker.
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by logtrees on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @06:15PM (#45675854)
Not yet, but could there be?
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Re:Meta is axing 600 roles across its AI division by lazide on Wednesday October 22, 2025 @02:19PM (#45673094)
For any given time period N, if it takes > 0 time or effort to make a tool, then there are provably less possible tools than infinity for sure.

If we consider time period of length infinity, then it is less clear (I don’t have room in the margins to write out my proof), but since near as we can tell we don’t have infinity time, does it matter?

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