“Mark Zuckerberg is rumored to be personally recruiting—reportedly at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto—for a new 50-person “Superintelligence” AI team at Meta meant to gain ground on rivals like Google and OpenAI. The plan includes hiring a new head of AI research to work alongside Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, who is being brought in as part of a plan to invest up to $15 billion for a 49% stake in the training data company.”
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.”
“The funds hitting their go-broke dates doesn’t mean that there won’t be any funds to cover any benefits after that point. After 2034, Social Security would only have enough funds to cover 81% of benefits. After 2033, Medicare’s hospital insurance trust fund would only be able to pay 89% of costs.”
“Traditional headline economic indicators like GDP and unemployment tell us the economy is thriving, but they don’t reflect the lived reality of most Americans,” Ludwig said in a statement. “Americans are working harder than ever, fueling our economic growth, but the benefits of that hard work are not being distributed in a way that supports upward mobility for too many middle- and low-income Americans.”
“The not-quite-so-good news is that for many of us, no matter our age, reaching a goal of early retirement will take some major mindset adjustments and lifestyle changes. Think cutting back on expenses and getting our income up. Will it be easy? Probably not. Will it be worth it? Absolutely.”
“I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
“And here’s where the real opportunity emerged: The work graph—which included two months of activity that was vetted and context-rich—could then be used to train the AI tool. Because it captured everything the team deemed important, it provided the AI tool with real-time, human-validated context, which enabled the tool begin working in a way that aligned with how the team actually worked. With this input, the AI tool was able to produce a significantly more complete first draft, reducing iterations and accelerating the path to a final, usable contract. This approach cut the team’s manual effort in drafting each contract by more than half. While they still reviewed and verified the AI-generated output, they required far fewer iterations and much less rework. As a result, the team’s overall throughput in generating contracts increased by nearly 30%.”
“I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.”
