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While there have been a few public failures that were rather ... embarrassing ... and had their plug pulled off quickly, I don't think anyone can, in good consc

While there have been a few public failures that were rather ... embarrassing ... and had their plug pulled off quickly, I don't think anyone can, in good conscience, claim that Meta has not been supportive of the AI/ML community, both in terms of research output and in terms of tooling [1]. [1] https://pytorch.org https://pytorch.org

moregrist 4y ago
Exactly. These are all R&D tools and papers. I think the criticism is quite valid if you look at actual products. It’s also a fair criticism of most of big tech wrt AI, and a lot of AI/ML: there’s a lot of cool-sounding R&D, but so far there are few (arguably no) resulting products. Maybe we’re starting to see that change, maybe not. Bing/ChatGPT is promising, but ... nascent. A lot of this has echoes of the self-driving revolution. Whenever I read techno-optimists on this site, I cannot help but think back to 2014-ish when they all predicted that there would be no truckers in 5 years and dramatic changes to infrastructure to support a wave of self-driving vehicles.