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Wow, skimping on 150 people for the biggest change to the tech industry in since the invention of the computer. You understand Apple spent like billions for th
by anonylizard 3y ago
Wow, skimping on 150 people for the biggest change to the tech industry in since the invention of the computer.
You understand Apple spent like billions for this electric car industry that never produced anything? Why would they want to starve the AI project now?
You understand how many people in Microsoft and Google are working on AI adjacent projects? Even if they aren't AI researchers, there's tons of work just to put the models in useful applications.
- SheinhardtWigCo 3y agoMore cooks does not a delicious meal make.
- thih9 3y ago“Man-Month” can be mythical, then again sometimes you’re making a very big omelette and could use the extra hands - if only to handle tooling, prep work, or other distractions.
- topkai22 3y agoBut necessary to feed more people.
- zerohp 3y agoMore cooks can't make one meal better but more cooks can make dozens of different meals and you can choose the best result.
- vrc 3y agoI’d argue the internet is much bigger to date. In the future, who knows — anything getting closer to AGI would be bigger possibly but still built on the backbone of computers and the internet.
- johnnyanmac 3y ago>You understand Apple spent like billions for this electric car industry that never produced anything? Why would they want to starve the AI project now? Interest rates? I'm sure self driving cars will also shift society one day. But money isn't free anymore And in the case of R&D they can't amortize the costs of devs either. it shows how many companies really care about "changing the world".