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New comment by funnyAI in "Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 managerial positions to save $3.5B yearly"

funnyAI — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 22:19:03 +0000

Just a few weeks ago I was contacted by Amazon recruiter and refused for exactly this reason. I expect more layoffs as they figure out they don't need this many engineers after all. They will turn into money pumping google search analog.

New comment by funnyAI in "Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents"

funnyAI — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:52:09 +0000

It's all probabilistic, my guess. I.e. model produces probabilities for a set of actions from the same video. Even pretended action may look more like it than anything else. Thus getting higher probability.

New comment by funnyAI in "Magma: A foundation model for multimodal AI agents"

funnyAI — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:48:36 +0000

Just wondering if there is any research done in incremental training? That could be used in robots as alternative to RAG.

New comment by funnyAI in "Accelerating scientific breakthroughs with an AI co-scientist"

funnyAI — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 04:10:03 +0000

"conceptual framework" can actually be another generalist model. Splitting model also comes with some advantages. Like easy separate tuning and replacements. Easy scaling by simply duplicating heavily used model on new hardware.

New comment by funnyAI in ""Ensuring Accountability for All Agencies" – Executive Order"

funnyAI — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:44:44 +0000

> I have no faith that the American public is up to the task. It will demand too much discomfort, and sacrifice

More up than many. There is no other way to prevent power grab. You can see it in post-USSR space what happens when there is no push-back from public.