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Some of the big tech giants may be playing fast and loose with AI
According to a rumor that sounds pretty plausible, the powers-that-be at Meta weren’t happy with the results, and wanted something better badly enough that they may have tried to cheat, per a thread on reddit( original in Chinese): I have known her for years to be someone who cares about the integrity of machine learning research; I often point to a wonderful piece of work of hers (done at McGill before she joined Meta) called the AI Replicability Checklist. Not one to my knowledge has factored the repeated failures in building GPT-5 level models into their “AGI timelines.” Rather, from what I can tell, these pundits mainly get their timeline ideas from the producers of Generative AI – discounting the fact that such people have heavily vested interests — too often taking their word as gospel.
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