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		rwmj on April 27, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dropbox to reduce global workforce by about 16%, o... About the AI thing (assuming it's true and not merely a convenient excuse for layoffs): Is every company just planning to feed all of their customer data through GPT / OpenAI, or will they build their own AIs? The first choice seems risky, from a business, legal and privacy perspective. The second one would require a large amount of capital and has many other risks.

yellow_postit on April 27, 2023 [–]

Given the rise of foundational models the tuning/adaptation on top is quite a bit cheaper.

I imagine foundation models become a bit like cloud provider paas offerings vs rolling your own data centers.

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