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This assumes they don't just run out of money. I imagine if they keep raising capital then they won't, but if FB keeps releasing high quality open models they
by 999900000999 2y ago
This assumes they don't just run out of money.
I imagine if they keep raising capital then they won't, but if FB keeps releasing high quality open models they might suck the air out of the room.
I think Meta's long game is to have it's own AI products as they only AIs allowed in the Meta ecosystem. Right now it's a silly chatbot, but advanced AI + Metaverse could change everything.
Imagine an AI model of the world's best Italian tutor, students with Quest headsets taking virtual trips to Rome.
Even a cheap language tutor is 20$ an hour. With AI it'll basically be free.
And that's one subject, think about physics, mechanics, medicine? All taught in VR with advanced AI.
It's a trillion dollar opportunity. If I was a bit younger I'd be prototyping this right now and trying to get a startup going. I'm older and fully understand such software will take hundreds of millions to build...
Still , Meta has that potential. I'm very excited for the future of this space.
- jodleif 2y agoThis is pretty dystopian. Facebook doing free classes, financed by ads.
- jclulow 2y ago> Even a cheap language tutor is 20$ an hour. With AI it'll basically be free. Only until you drive the last tutors out of work. Then somehow it will be $40 an hour again.
- add-sub-mul-div 2y agoOur lack of foresight 20 years ago about how emerging technologies like social media and ad tech would eventually be used against us can be forgiven, we were naive. There's no excuse for not seeing it now.
- 4ad 2y agoExcept that today you can run top class models on your own hardware. Granted, you need a lot of compute, but this will only go down in price.