[Solvency]

He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing for Zuckerberg. And only after the rest of the world innovated on AI (transformers, etc) did he clearly feel embarrassed and had to proclaim he's going to focus on AGI in a "one-up" way.

[fkyoureadthedoc]

He got paid a lot to do something he was presumably passionate about and enjoyed. It also might surprise you to find out that there's quite a lot of people that just work as a means to an end, and find value and enjoyment primarily from other parts of their life.

[Solvency]

that's great for him. i'm glad he enjoyed the $$$ playing with VR. that has nothing to do with my point about his irrelevance to this LLaMa discussion.

[talldayo]

He's not irrelevant, though. Literally the first thing he did after leaving Meta was start an AI business, and the original point wasn't even necessarily about AI. They just said they wanted to see two engineers in conversation, and you used it as an opportunity to denigrate one of their previous employers. That's bewilderingly irrelevant.

[Solvency]

i can "start an ai business" too simply by incorporating.

[talldayo]

And if you did, you wouldn't be irrelevant anymore. I don't get your point.

[modeless]

Can you raise $20m and get the likes of Rich Sutton to collaborate with you?

[talldayo]

> He literally squandered the last 10 years of his life working on absolutely nothing

Speak for yourself, the Oculus Quest is the coolest piece of sub-$500 tech in my home.