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namastayhom33 t1_j9v7d46 wrote

Oh great Meta and Ai, what could go wrong.

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10MinsForUsername OP t1_j9v7zkl wrote

Meta actually has a decent portofolio of open source AI tools: https://github.com/orgs/facebookresearch/repositories?type=all

I personally like fairseq: https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairseq

Yes Facebook is trash in terms of privacy, but it doesn't mean the company isn't doing an actual scientific work.

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[deleted] t1_j9wkh16 wrote

Most people here don’t know how valuable Meta has been to the tech industry. They are one of the reasons developers get paid amazingly well these days.

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Divided_World t1_j9x467c wrote

Curious about developers being paid well because of them. Can you elaborate at all?

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malevolent_keyboard t1_j9xg8ia wrote

Probably missing some details, but back in the early-mid 2000’s, most tech companies formed a not-so-secret-anymore pact to keep pay low for developers. Facebook was the only company who said “not interested” and paid SWE’s what all the companies knew they were worth. Then the other companies lost workers to Facebook for much higher pay and benefits, forcing those companies to follow suit. This was mostly Zuck’s doing.

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SeaRollz t1_j9xdwwa wrote

Without them, I would not have gotten my first front end developer job!

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HunterofSnowmen t1_j9xe9k9 wrote

Have you ever heard of a little something called PyTorch. Give them their credit where credit is due.

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Total_loss_2b_boss t1_j9yhs2w wrote

I know that Facebook's BERT model is hugely useful in various AI tasks but I didn't know that they were behind pytorch.

Damn. Pytorch kind of matters a lot in AI. Like, a lot. All of the open source AI stuff I've been tinkering with uses pytorch.

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