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As the weights have leaked anyway; one great move that FB could have done would be to ride the wave of positive PR + get all investors hyped: ---> "Meta is a
by rvnx 4y ago
As the weights have leaked anyway;
one great move that FB could have done would be to ride the wave of positive PR +
get all investors hyped:
---> "Meta is a credible alternative to OpenAI, the company is switching from "Meta"-bullshit to an "IA"-first company",
and get the investors to pump the Meta stock,
and then dilute some of the shares to raise some cash (or issue new shares to newly specialized IA hires).
But no, FB is still going after the VR gimmicks and NFTs.
4 billion USD per quarter wasted on Oculus (!), while they could use this money to fund and support a whole ecosystem around LLaMA.
- pavlov 4y agoIs IA something different from AI? Or maybe just the French version ("intelligence artificielle" I imagine...) My feeling is that a lot of Meta's AI/ML work actually ties into the AR/VR long-term dream. How do you make the so-called metaverse alive? By having people design it themselves. They're not going to do that in Maya, that's for sure. But if they could create virtual spaces and virtual people with Holodeck-style natural language instructions...
- giancarlostoro 4y agoCould just be a small typo too
- vanilla_nut 4y agoMaybe they mean "information architecture." Facebook does produce Docusaurus, after all, one of the best documentation platforms out there today :)
- erikstarck 4y agoIntelligence Augmentation?
- LtdJorge 4y agoLatin languages use IA
- rvnx 4y agoI apologize, my French accent broke into the wild. Yes, it's totally AI, and IA is the French version :)
- yencabulator 4y agoTo complete the joke, Information Architure (IA) = Architecture de l'Information (AI).
- joseda-hg 4y agoI've been known to mix both when switching context between Spanish and English Programmers in particular tend to overuse anglicisms, and often I end up mentally doing spanglish in my head, "Necesito este value" "Este command deberia hacer esto" "Este iterator va a hacer $something a este object"
- Firmwarrior 4y agoHaha, I noticed my coworkers do that when they're speaking Hindi or Chinese too. All the key words are in English, so you step in and say "Oh, you guys are talking about that iterator bug?" and they're shocked: "Wow, you speak Chinese?"
- nneonneo 4y agoChinese, unlike Japanese or Korean, lacks a consistent phonetic mechanism for "importing" foreign words. Phonetic approximations are, with few exceptions, limited to foreign names. As such, practically every bit of jargon is semantically translated (examples include 电脑 "electronic brain" for computer, 端口 "end opening" for port), but since most programming is done in English-based languages, it's not uncommon for Chinese programmers to be more familiar with the English jargon.
- arcticbull 4y agoI don't know how you'd better express 'port' than end-opening. After all it refers to the place where boats are loaded and unloaded. Honestly the semantic translation seems a far more apt term. I guess there's something like 港 but that's probably just more confusing.
- q7xvh97o2pDhNrh 4y ago> Honestly the semantic translation seems a far more apt term. That's interesting. For me, the port metaphor makes me think data port, which seems like a pretty apt parallel to the flow of goods at a shipping port. Different metaphors for different folks, I suppose.
- giancarlostoro 4y agoZuck really thinks he can build the Ready Player One reality I guess.
- echelon 4y agoApple, Steam, Epic Games, and VRChat will kill any chance Meta has at attaining VR monopoly.
- jpgvm 4y agoOculus is between a rock and a hard place. The rock being consoles that want their own native VR solutions and aren't interested in sharing their cut of games etc and the hard place being Steam. You just can't compete with Steam. It's been tried. All competitors are mercilessly drowned in the giant fucking moat surrounding GabeN's castle. PC gamers are fiercely loyal, "generally" more informed then other consumers and absolutely despise any forms of dark patterns. Because Steam has always done right by PC gamers Steam has benefited from that loyalty for a good 2 decades now. Everyone is welcome in GabeN's castle but y'all gotta pay the toll to cross the drawbridge.
- MikusR 4y ago>Because Steam has always done right by PC gamers It took a lawsuit to get refunds for Steam. >absolutely despise any forms of dark patterns Steam has been doing lootboxes and NFTs for more than 10 years
- TrevorJ 4y agoSure, but thanks to bad behavior by the rest of the industry, Steam is still looked at very favorably by consumers in contrast.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoThese kids don't remember how much gamers hated Steam when Valve first crammed it down our throats The new batch of kids don't seem to mind using Game Pass or picking up Fortnite of the epic games store, either
- marktangotango 4y agoIMO it highlights just what a commodity they weights are. If all one needs is the weights to reproduce the work, then where is the value? I mean there is very little moat here. Further, what does it say about consciousness and individuality if we all are simply the values of the weights in our wet neural networks? Or whatever the biological equivalent is?
- akiselev 4y agoNothing. It says nothing about consciousness and individuality. Numerical weights and physical neurons aren’t even remotely comparable.
- quonn 4y agoEven if they were, any data is also only bytes - numbers - and therefore any knowledge, books, any kind of sound or picture would likewise be trivial. But isn‘t.
- TeMPOraL 4y agoThere's nothing "simply" here. The weights in question are a particular configuration of several gigabytes worth of data. They're not random. Getting anything comparable by randomly generating a number this long is a "total atoms in the universe to the power of total atoms in the universe" kind of a deal. In abstract terms, those weights are by far the most dense form of meaning we've ever dealt with.
- microtonal 4y agoI think the point is more that the primary edge that they (Meta, OpenAI, etc.) have is compute capacity, since the models are easy to implement (and the most of the training data is out there). Once you have the weights, you can do with it as you please. This is probably why they hate/fight these leaks. Once the model weights are available, they lose much of their competitive advantage.
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- sheepscreek 4y agoExactly. Going after the folks that are basically helping improve your credibility is plain stupid. This could have been their “contribution to the society” - yielding much better PR than they could have ever hoped for.
- throwaway1777 4y agoActually I think nfts are wound down https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638572/instagram-nft-meta-facebook-quits-digital-collectibles https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/13/23638572/instagram-nft-me...
- curiousllama 4y agoThat 4B # encompasses AI and Metaverse. Hard to tell where the $ is actually going (plus, metaverse requires AI advancement). That’s one big reason the stock is up: $4B in the metaverse is nonsense. $4B in AI, though? Transformational
- alibero 4y agoIt seems like VR is less than half of the investment by RL. In Meta's 2022 annual report, they say "Many of our metaverse investments are directed toward long-term, cutting edge research and development for products that are not on the market today and may only be fully realized in the next decade. This includes exploring new technologies such as neural interfaces using electromyography, which lets people control their devices using neuromuscular signals, as well as innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and hardware to help build next- generation interfaces. ... *in 2023, we expect to spend approximately 50% of our Reality Labs operating expenses on our augmented reality initiatives, approximately 40% on our virtual reality initiatives, and approximately 10% on social platforms and other initiatives.*" I'm not sure if Horizon falls into "virtual reality" or "social platforms" but it seems to be the latter: "For example, we have launched Horizon Worlds, a social platform where people can interact with friends, ..."
- IncRnd 4y agoFacebook, which ran over the law in order to be successful now uses the law in the exact opposite sense. Ultimately, it's greed, "What is good for me to do to you is not good for you to do to me."
- bitL 4y agoThey could do what Microsoft used to do in the 90s-00s, make pirated Windows/Office available (by turning blind eye on private users) so that they capture and keep the mindshare.
- DesiLurker 4y agothere is a saying in Sanskrit that goes.. "the laziness of a Lion is the security for the rest of jungle". Let 'em burn it all.