Hugging Face CEO calls huge ML models Formula 1 of machine learning

Clement Delangue, the co-founder and CEO of Hugging Face, has said huge ML models are to machine learning what formula 1 is to the car industry. He laid out his case in a series of tweets: First, like formula 1, it's obviously good PR and branding and very much driven by ego; Second, the resulting models are too costly, unusable and dangerous to use in real life just like you wouldn't drive a Formula 1 car to go to work; however, it's useful in the sense that by pushing everything to the extreme, you learn a ton! To me, huge ML models are to machine learning what formula 1 is to the car industry! Ironically, Delangue's bold statement was another PR stunt. He plugged the BigScience Research Workshop (a gathering of 1,000 researchers around the world.