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swlabr ( swlabr@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago

Meta announces money pit; Alexrandr tapped to lead

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Meta announces money pit; Alexrandr tapped to lead

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swlabr ( swlabr@awful.systems )  to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 year ago
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After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”
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Zuckerberg seeks new AI direction under sci-fi banner that some experts say is arbitrary.

https://archive.is/GWz0e

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  • Amoeba_Girl ( Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems ) 
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    I hope this doesn’t distract them from their core VR focus.

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      Can’t wait to pay metaverse™ rent with libra®

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    Meta has reportedly offered compensation packages worth seven to nine figures to dozens of researchers from companies like OpenAI and Google, according to The New York Times, with some already agreeing to join the company.

    devil’s in the detials/comp structure/yadayada, but fuck damn is it frustrating how this still means that after even a year or two a fair number of the worst people you could ever meet would be set for life

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      They’ll be paid in unlimited gold dust specks a million years from now

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      They’ll blow their money on AI.

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    AI->Cocaine replacement, in which AI really is God’s way of telling you you have too much money

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      If you want to hang out, you’ve gotta take her out, tech brain

      If you want to get down, down on the ground, tech brain

      AGI, say goodbye, ROI, tech brain

      -Eric “Slophand” Slopton

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        Eric “Slophand” Slopton: He’s like Eric Clapton, but somehow more racist

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