Meta Lays Off 8k Employees, as A.I. Casualties Mount(www.nytimes.com)
10 pointsby saikatsg2 hours ago2 comments
  • Danox8 minutes ago
    To date over $80 billion dollars spent down the drain…
  • disqard2 hours ago
    Among the tech giants, what is Meta's "AI play"?

    Is it: "we'll serve Black Mirror ads (generated via AI) into people's AR/VR glasses, since they'll wear them all the time"?

    • chistev9 minutes ago
      It has to be an integration with ads somehow.

      I made a recent post [1] showing how the big tech companies make their money. It links a post from 2017 but it shows that Facebook (Meta now) is just an advertisement warehouse.

      https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48193810

    • simianwords23 minutes ago
      Personal AI assistant is what they are probably going for. It knows about you, your preferences and so on. So more memory based.