It’s interesting that whenever you hear about someone quitting an AI lab, the stated reasons are always aligned with the industry’s internal narrative; It’s always something to do with how powerful the models are, or how transformative it all is.
These people never seem to quit because they’ve become skeptical of the technical approach or claimed capabilities. Solving all human problems with a trillion parameter text prediction model is, apparently, completely reasonable to them.
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