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It’s really hard for me to believe Yann is engaging sincerely, he is downplaying LLM abilities on purpose. He leads AI at Meta, a company with the competitive
by mmoustafa 2y ago
It’s really hard for me to believe Yann is engaging sincerely, he is downplaying LLM abilities on purpose.
He leads AI at Meta, a company with the competitive strategy to commoditize AI via Open Source models. Their biggest hinderance would be regulation putting a stop to the proliferation of capabilities. So they have to understate the power of the models. This is the only way Meta can continue sucking steam out of the leading labs.
- muglug 2y agoYou’re free to concoct a conspiracy that he’s just a puppet for Meta’s supposed business interests*, but that doesn’t change the validity of his claims. * pretty sure any revenue from commercial Llama licenses are a rounding error at best
- threeseed 2y ago> commoditize AI via Open Source models Sounds like we should be fully supporting them then.
- mmoustafa 2y agoYes!
- lyu07282 2y agoYou don't have to assume malice, he is a strong believer in liberalism so naturally he would argue whatever leads to less regulation. Even if he thought AI was dangerous he would still believe that corporations are better suited to combat that threat than any government. Its similar to how the WSJ journalist would never ask him what he thinks about the larger effects of the "deindustrialization" of knowledge-based jobs caused by AI. Not because the journalist is malicious, its just the shared, subconscious ideology. People don't need a reason to protect capital interests, even poor people on the very bottom will protect it.
- mmoustafa 2y agoYes, you can be liberalist and anti-regulation while also believing the capabilities are ... what they are. I believe many of Yann's statements are straw-manning or sometimes, simply incorrect downplaying of capabilities.