▲ Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to making mistakes during the company's recent transition to artificial intelligence (AI), including being overly aggressive with staff reassignments.
This was revealed after Reuters obtained an internal memo in which Zuckerberg stated, "We made mistakes in the complexity of the shift (brought on by the AI boom), and we will make more."
According to Reuters, Zuckerberg said he is "focused on keeping the company as stable as possible moving forward" and does not expect any further company-wide layoffs this year.
He also added that the company would find new roles for employees who had been reassigned to AI model training tasks.
The move to reassign personnel previously dedicated to AI development stems from the aggressive organizational restructuring Meta had implemented.
Last year, Meta set a goal of developing Artificial Super Intelligence (ASI) that surpasses human capabilities, engaging in an aggressive war for AI talent, which included recruiting Alexander Wang, founder of the AI data startup Scale AI.
The company also forcibly moved 7,000 employees into AI-related departments.
However, it appears that this approach hit a wall in less than a year.
Zuckerberg recently appeared on the Silicon Valley tech podcast "No Priors," where he emphasized, "You don't need hundreds or thousands of researchers to make progress in AI," adding, "You can make real progress with a very strong group of 10 to 20 people."
However, he confessed that the company is experiencing constraints due to a lack of infrastructure, such as computing resources.
He stated, "I think every lab in the world is probably constrained by compute right now, and we are too," describing his current state as feeling "both energized and exhausted."
In fact, it has been reported that due to a recent shortage of computing resources, Meta has begun to limit the indiscriminate use of an AI tool called "Tokenmaxxing" and has started to reduce costs through "Tokenminimizing."
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