>Each of the big AI breakthroughs (ChatGPT, GPT-3, DALL-E) have been made possible through extensive data collection and annotation infrastructure.
Maybe I'd count the RLHF stuff from ChatGPT as requiring a form of annotation. But like Dall-E is trained using existing captions/alt-text. No one is sitting in a room annotating images for Dall-E. Where would a company like Scale fit into this?
The irony is in their name "scale", laying off 20% would be ringing death bell for a company that actually operated leanly. They basically tried to copy mechanical turk
"Many of the industries we serve, such as e-commerce and consumer technology, have been buoyed by the pandemic and are now experiencing a painful market correction."
that they had an established segment of customers that were experimentally looking at ML to augment their core business, and how they could leverage with their data. Perhaps these companies are pulling back spend with whispers of a shaky 2023 economy.
