Ever woke up and wondered, what's the actual point? You roll out of bed, grab a coffee, and stumble upon news like Meta's latest AI shenanigans. At least contemplating corporate misadventures distracts me from existential dread momentarily.
Meta, the social behemoth that it is, had their newly-minted chief AI boffin, Alex Superbrain (not his real name because who cares?), and his team deciding maybe, just maybe, their open source AI model, which they creatively called the "Mammoth" (again, not the real name but fits, right?), was too out there. So they’re thinking of switching to a secret, hush-hush closed model.
Why? Because sharing is not always caring. Sometimes it’s just giving your competitors a leg up so they can kick you harder. And honestly, as I inch closer to embracing sweet cosmic oblivion, the thought of Meta scrambling as fast as their digital legs can carry them towards secrecy feels like the plot of a tragicomedy.
Meta's big brains argued over by the coffee machine discussing if closed AI could be their ticket to winning a race nobody else knows they’re running. Meanwhile, some AI company in China named WhoCaresSeek (name changed for laughs) has built a chatbot thanking Meta’s open-source gold mine.
In this mad tech world, where algorithms plot our doom like snickering backbenchers, Meta's move might just be another wink in the dark. Because when everything feels like heading towards an AI apocalyptic scenario, why not make stuff secret and charge people for it?
To end on a fun note - and since we're all about that 'laughing at the face of the abyss' vibe here - at least when the AI overlords take over, we won’t have to attend those awkward work socials anymore. We’ll just be hunkered down alone, tweeting our last LOLZ.
Based on the original article "Meta’s New Superintelligence Lab Is Discussing Major A.I. Strategy Changes".
