Meta reassigns more than 1,000 software engineers from advertising teams into data labeling roles for AI model training ahead of expected layoffs
Some teams shifted 20-40 percent of developers to annotation work.
#488kache@YACINEMTBDo you know what all of the top AI researchers do that their subpar counterparts don't? They actually look at the data
The top google search engineers spend their mornings doing a/b blind tests of search results on Google sheets with their own eyeballs
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOroszHas been for weeks, now. Covered it two weeks ago in @Pragmatic_Eng fwiw those forcefully reassigned to data labelers were not laid off and probably will not be let go this year (no more mass layoffs). One positive at least if you want to hire from Meta, now is the time btw
#488kache@YACINEMTBIf you think you are above labeling data you are not going to make it
kache@yacineMTBDo you know what all of the top AI researchers do that their subpar counterparts don't? They actually look at the data The top google search engineers spend their mornings doing a/b blind tests of search results on Google sheets with their own eyeballs
#488kache@YACINEMTB@chris_j_paxton It's also true for pure RL! You need to look at rollout samples the entire way through
Chris Paxton@chris_j_paxtonImo this is true for data collection too, at least a little bit
#732Chris Paxton@CHRIS_J_PAXTONImo this is true for data collection too, at least a little bit
kache@yacineMTBIf you think you are above labeling data you are not going to make it