Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

Zuckerberg has made it possible that relations with AI “probably not replace” connections in person, because there are “things that are better about physical connections when you can have them”. At the same time, he said, for the average American who has three friends, the relationships AI can respond to the “demand” of “something like 15 friends” without the effort of socialization of the real world. “People just don’t have as many connections as they want,” said Zuckerberg. “They feel more alone most of the time than they would like.”

Zuckerberg also sees AI leading to a flourishing of productivity and human creativity in a way that even his wildest metavente imaginations could not correspond. Zuckerberg said that the progress of AI could “lead to a world of abundance where everyone has these superhuman tools to create what they want”. This means personal access to “a super powerful [virtual] The software engineer “and the AI ​​that” solve diseases, progress in science, the development of new technologies that improve our lives “.

This will also mean that some companies will be able to manage with fewer employees for too long, said Zuckerberg. In customer service, for example, “as AI improves, you are going to go to a place where AI can manage a lot of people’s problems,” he said. “Not all – maybe in 10 years, it can manage them all, but reflecting on a horizon of three to five years, he will be able to manage a pile.”

In the longer term, Zuckerberg said, AIS will also be integrated into our more relaxed activities. “If everyone has these superhuman tools to create a ton of different things, you will get an incredible diversity”, and “the quantity of creativity that will be unlocked will be massive,” he said. “I guess the world will become much funnier, stranger and more lively, the way the memes on the Internet have overcome in the past 10 years.”

Compare and contrast

Admittedly, there are important differences between the past promise of Metaversse and the current promise of AI technology. Zuckerberg says that a billion people use Meta products monthly Meta, for example, completely overshadowing the highest estimates for regular use of “metavers” or increased as a whole (even if many AI users seem to comply with the regular use of AI tools). Meta-coders have also already used coding tools in a way that they have never done with Meta Metaversh tools. And people already develop what they consider to be significant relationships with AI characters, whether in the form of therapists or romantic partners.