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1. _8L34K · 1790863104 · focus · HN ↗

   "Meta is claiming that the costly A.I. computer chips it buys from companies, including Nvidia, are entitled to a taxpayer-provided discount as part of the experiment."

   Why do these schemes always involves these private companies siphoning money from taxpayers? It's "communism" (or whatever) to subsidize public health, yet we are expected to subsidize experimental AI companies.

   1. treis · 1790863308 · focus · HN ↗

      We aren't expected to. We (or our elected representatives) passed a law saying that experimental spending gets tax breaks. And I don't really see an argument that LLMs aren't in an experimental phase.

      1. simonw · 1790863564 · focus · HN ↗

         I'm happy to make that argument. LLMs were experimental in 2023. It's 2026 now, and enormous numbers of people use them on a daily basis (ChatGPT has 1.2 billion weekly users now, according to Sam Altman at OpenAI DevDay).

         They're only experimental in the way that computers are still experimental, since we continue to find new ways to use computers.

         1. treis · 1790863719 · focus · HN ↗

            I think that's shaky but also that's OpenAI and not Meta. Up until whenever Muse was launched Meta didn't have anything I'd call a LLM product.

            1. zeezer0 · 1790864274 · focus · HN ↗

               You don't consider Llama an LLM?

               1. treis · 1790872254 · focus · HN ↗

                  It wasn't a product

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