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sebmellen ◴[] No.45897467[source]
Making LeCun report to Wang was the most boneheaded move imaginable. But… I suppose Zuckerberg knows what he wants, which is AI slopware and not truly groundbreaking foundation models.
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ACCount37 ◴[] No.45897970[source]
That was obviously him getting sidelined. And it's easy to see why.

LLMs get results. None of the Yann LeCun's pet projects do. He had ample time to prove that his approach is promising, and he didn't.

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1. dude250711 ◴[] No.45898088[source]
There is someone else at Facebook who's pet projects do not get results...
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2. jb1991 ◴[] No.45898144[source]
Who are you referring to?
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3. nolok ◴[] No.45898176[source]
I think he means Zuckerberg himself, the metaverse isn't exactly a major success, but this is a false equivalency the way he organized it only his vote matters he does what he wants
4. ergocoder ◴[] No.45898195[source]
If you hire a house cleaner to clean your house, and the cleaner didn't do well, would you eject yourself out of the house? You would not. You would change to a new cleaner.
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5. ACCount37 ◴[] No.45898427[source]
Sure, but that "someone else" is the man writing the checks. If the roles were reversed, he'd be the one being fired now.
6. psychoslave ◴[] No.45900278[source]
But if we hire someone to deal on R&D to automate fully the house cleaning process, we might not necessarily expect the office to be maintained in clean state by the researchers themselves any time we enter the room.