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This is a broadside aimed at Google and OpenAI. Individual researchers have taken Facebook's existing AI code and already made it almost as good as ChatGPT at a tiny fraction of the cost.
If you can't buy the competition, make their business model untenable by giving away their product.
You have to understand that when they say "lettuce farms", they're not actually talking about lettuce farms, they mean... Nope, sorry, they really do mean lettuce farms.
In 2021, AeroFarms, an early vertical-farming pioneer based in Newark, New Jersey, had plans to go public through a blank-check merger that had an equity value around $1.2 billion. The growth potential seemed limitless.
But as interest rates began to climb, investors started to scrutinize profitability in a way they hadn't for years, and soon came to realise that they had set their money on fire.
If you were wondering why Nvidia doesn't care that the outrageous pricing and mediocre performance of its RTX 4000 series has turned away millions of gamers, this is your answer. Margins on these high-end cards are much better; the company would need to sell millions of mid-range gaming cards to match what one customer spent on high-end cards in six months.
Our analysis of this phenomenon also allowed us to compare what's actually happened with theoretical expectations. Theory tells us that computing needs to scale with at least the fourth power of the improvement in performance. In practice, the actual requirements have scaled with at least the ninth power.
This ninth power means that to halve the error rate, you can expect to need more than 500 times the computational resources. That's a devastatingly high price.
Companies like OpenAI don't want to fix this problem because it's the barrier that keeps smaller competitors at bay. If there is a solution, it will come from people working on Facebook's open source code in the evening, not from OpenAI or Google, or even from Facebook.
That's not the story, but it's the most interesting point in the article.
Friends Don't Let Friends Do Reddit Video of the Day
Reddit as a tech company is basically worthless. Its market value comes from the communities built up over many years by groups of volunteers, and Reddit's CEO Steve Huffman-Fried has told those volunteers to, and I quote, "go fuck themselves with a kidney stone the size of a grapefruit".
This is not generally considered a sound business move.
The default subreddits - and hence Reddit's appearance to a new user - look like MySpace as run by Brian Stelter anyway, so if the whole site burns to the ground it will not be missed. Much.
Disclaimer: Quotes in the mirror are more accurate than they appear.