Comment by tim333

I got the impression he's intelligent and hard working but to a large extent got lucky. I mean his idea was to kind of do a better version of Mechanical Turk which is ok as an idea but not amazing or anything. But then all these LLM companies were getting billions thrown at them by investors thinking they'd be AGI soon but they didn't work well without lots of humans doing fine tuning and Wang's company provided an outlet to throw the money at to get humans to try to do that.

I don't know how that will go at Meta. At the moment having lots of humans tweek LLMs still seems to be the main thing at the AI companies but that could change.