Right. Except that Mark Z, @boztank and others in the leadership were always supportive of the JEPA / World Models project as a long-term bet.
But the AI strategy of company became more LLM-pilled and short-term focused.
And many of the applications of JEPA/WM are in industrial
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Meta’s JEPA Strategy Shift: LLM Focus Over World Models
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Softmax Creator Regrets Terminology Choice, Suggests Softargmax
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John Bridle himself, the man who coined the term "softmax", says that he should have called it "softargmax"
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Probability of AI doom: agency and collective responsibility
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I didn't say p(doom) was zero. I said:
1. All estimates are pulled out of thin air
2. It makes little sense to attribute a probability to an event on which we have agency. If you do so, it's more of a statement about our collective ability to do the right thing than about the -
AI to Add 0.6% Annual GDP Growth Over Next Decade
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They all predict around 0.6% additional growth PER YEAR over the next decade due to AI.
In other words, if GDP growth without AI was going to be 2.5% per year on average, it will now be about 3.1% per year. The compound growth over 10 years will be 36% instead of 28%.
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Leading AI Researcher Secures Historic Seed Round at AMI Labs
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AI Leaders Misunderstand Technological Impact on Labor
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I love Geoff.
But he understands even less than Dario about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
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Dynamic vs Lexical Scoping in Compiler Design
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Programming Language Adoption Challenges in Dynamic Loader Development
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1. Maintenance burden. The dynamic loader was difficult to port. The Lisp compiler had limitations, fixing them would have required a major overhaul.
2. Lots of people don't want to learn Lisp, for some mysterious reason.
3. They didn't want to learn Lua either.
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Tech CEOs lack expertise in labor economics analysis
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A tech CEO knows as much about labor economics as the head of a Formula 1 racing team knows about thermodynamics.
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Physicists Missing Major Innovations Like Internal Combustion
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That's like saying "physicists missed the internal combustion engine"