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☆ Ex-Reddit CEO says tech giants are shipping subpar products because they are obsessed with winning the AI race
  + stars: | 2024-05-23 | by ( Kwan Wei Kevin Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +1 min
Ex-Reddit CEO Yishan Wong says tech giants are obsessed with AI but shipping bad products. "The big internet giants are in a state of memetic competition over AI," Wong said. Wong said tech companies are forcing everyone to use their LLM-powered products. AdvertisementTech giants are letting their obsession with AI affect the quality of the products they're launching, former Reddit CEO Yishan Wong said on Wednesday. "This is leading to all of them integrating LLM-powered AI into their products, but the AI sometimes gives flawed answers, which is problematic in products where the existing quality/accuracy expectation was higher," Wong continued.
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☆ The former CEO of Reddit says laid-off tech workers should get in on AI because 'you don't need an enormous amount of technical skill' to make an AI app
  + stars: | 2023-04-26 | by ( Cheryl Teh | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Yishan Wong, the former CEO of Reddit, has advice for tech workers: Get into AI now. "You don't need an enormous amount of technical skill," Wong told Fortune. "It feels like a hype train, but actually there's an enormous amount of value overhang," Wong told Fortune. He said he "randomly moved around" from tech job to tech job, and just worked "really hard" wherever he ended up. However, the AI industry itself does have promising inroads for tech workers.
☆ Corporations desperate to avoid poor quality carbon credits and are starting up their own climate funds to offset emissions
  + stars: | 2023-03-24 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
The voluntary carbon market has a problem with bad quality carbon credits. "Headline after headline is published exposing these offsets for poor quality," Michelle You, CEO and cofounder of carbon removal platform Supercritical told Insider. The London Stock Exchange has also done this for investors - instead of getting dividends, they get carbon credits. He expects bespoke funds will phase out when the quality of carbon credits is better assured. Frontier Fund has brought widespread attention to the carbon removal space and sends critical demand signals to early carbon removal companies, Supercritical's You said.
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