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		lelanthran 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mark Zuckerberg freezes AI hiring amid bubble fear... > In this case, you want one foundation model, not 100 or 1000. You can’t afford to build 1000. That’s the one baby the company wants. I am going to repeat the footnote in my comment: >> [1] It's even more facile in this context: you're looking to strike gold (AGI), so the analogy is trying to get one genius (160+ IQ) child. Good luck getting there by getting 1 woman pregnant at a time! IOW, if you're looking for specifically for quality, you can't bet everything on one horse.

ethbr1 5 months ago [–]

You're ignoring that each foundation model requires sinking enormous and finite resources (compute, time, data) into training.

At some point, even companies like Meta need to make a limited number of bets, and in cases like that it's better to have smarter than more people.

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