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Francois Chollet is leaving Google

(developers.googleblog.com)
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1. kreyenborgi ◴[] No.42134410[source]
His tweets are quite interesting. E.g.

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1638057646602489856

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1840486105118015901

https://x.com/fchollet/status/1845103528806662258

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2. MasterScrat ◴[] No.42134846[source]
Very insightful to have a number from him here:

> LLMs are trained on much more than the whole Internet -- they also consume handcrafted answers produced by armies of highly qualified data annotators (often domain experts). Today approximately 20,000 people are employed full-time to produce training data for LLMs.

3. Skylyz ◴[] No.42138437[source]
These are comforting for sure if you're scared about your future as a SWE.