Of all the many famous stories of Steve Jobs that the people of the technology industry like to share, perhaps the most famous is its 1983 launch for President Elen-Pepsi, John Sculley, to join Apple: “Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling?”
Like many things that Jobs said, the launch was very arrogant, important and magnifying self, but ultimately. What Sculley did in Apple (mainly after firing jobs) to sell the Macintosh and popularize personal computing graphics changed the world rather than its invention of the Pepsi challenge. There really was a big difference between selling Mac and selling sugar water.
After listening to the Meta CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, present his vision of how Ai’s “superintelligence” would change the world, he thought, my main reaction was: man, this guy just wants to sell sugary water.
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In an Instagram video (of course) published last week, Zuck explains that the goal objective is to develop “personal superintelligence for all”, accessing through devices such as “glasses that can see what we hear what we hear and interact.”
“Bone has written a lot about the scientific and economic advances that AI can bring,” he said. “And I am really optimistic about this.” But his vision is “different from others in the industry that they want to direct the AI to automate all valuable work”: “I think that an even more significant impact in our lives will come from all those who have a personal superintelligence that helps him achieve their objectives, create what you want to see in the world, be a best friend and become the person who aspires to be.”
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The main reaction to this launch that I have seen from the smart observers of AI is: Are you joking? “Superintelligence”, by definition, means a system that works better than a human, sometimes better fixed, in most domains, if not all. And the most that is more attentive than Zuck can think with that is … Virtual reality glasses? As Sharon Goldman de Fortune said, while Steve Jobs called his computers “a bicycle for the mind”, “Zuckerberg, on the contrary, imagines superintelligence as a couple of stripes that help you … be a best friend?”
The lack of ambition in Zuckerberg’s rhetoric is even more surprising when one considers the extreme ambition of his spent In AI. Only this year, he has hired the former CEO of Github, Nat Friedman, and the veteran founder of Ia Daniel Gross; The CEO of AI de Scale, Alexandr Wang (as part of a quasi-computer of scale, a massively important company whose training data is used by almost all AI companies); Apple AI Chief Rooming Pang; and Chatgpt Shangjia Zhao’s cooker, among others.
His hiring spree, and the gigantic amounts that are willing to pay the upper talent, have started the sector per week. According to the reports, in a competitor (the former Laboratory of Mira Mira Malas Lab
Only for a company as rich as a goal, more than one billion sacrifices for talent are unheard of or. ($ 1 billion is how much Zuckerberg paid for all Instagram in 2012.) It is a fairly vivid sign that Zuckerberg sees AI as the future of his business.
But how is that future?
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That could be what is happening, and sympathize with his position if so. Trying to play what a world after superintelligence is is extremely difficult, especially for those of us limited to simple human intellects. And it is usual terrifying, even if the changes are finally positive.
In spite of all uncertainty, there is no plausible world in which people have used access to “personal superintelligence” and they do not use it to serve a large number of tasks, and there is a schencing number or scenarios in which the clues. Other scenarios see wages shoot. It is a difficult situation for a CEO to send a message.
But it is also worth considering that Zuckerberg means exactly what he is saying: that the systems of AI that his team is building is not intended for automatic work, but to be a meta-governor layer between individual human beings and the world of the world. Facebook and Instagram are, in a sense, very raw versions of that layer, synthesizing and compressing the outside world in a digestible and addictive form that people can consume through their days, and the previous continuation of Zuckerberg. This approach has an immensely profitable bone. (He thought, not so much the metifier). Imagine how much more profitable it would be if a digital mind were much smarter than Zuck’s was designing it.
Conversations such as Zuckerberg with Ben Thompson business writer can give credit to this interpretation. Zuckerberg sees four opportunities with AI: Improvement of algorithms of recommendation of their products to better focus on advertising, promoting greater participation in “consumption surfaces” such as Instagram reels, “business messages” (that is, companies that make transactions through WhatsApp and Messenger, using AI) and, finally, directly, directly to Ai use à the chatgpt.
The promise of AI, to Zuckerberg, is that he can help him sell more ads and convince him to spend more time watching Instagram Brainrot. My reaction to that launch was the same as Ai Zvi Mowshowitz’s: “It was like you for you toked to the cartoon of the left of why Zuckerberg is evil, she combined it with a cartoon of the left on why a text of fused pouring fused, on purpose.” At least the sugar water of the Pepsi platefish legs.
That the sixth largest company on Earth is dedicating billions of dollars to this vision is not, you know, excellent. But it has a positive side.
One thing that I have learned when talking with IA researchers over the years is that most of them are driven by a conviction that this is building is really socially important. Sometimes that comes with a security dye (“this could kill us, and we need to do so so that”), sometimes with an accelerator dye (“this could free the humanity of Eighe! If they only wanted money, they would go to work for a coverage fund. But also because to build something they are proud or.
I think that character of character will cause the strategy of “throwing money to intelligent people until everyone joins” that Zuckerberg is trying to fail. If a superintelligence is built, it will be built by a equipment that is productive due to a passionate, shared and optimistic vision for how a world with super intelligence will be. It will be done because its manufacturers because changing the world, not selling sugar water. A team of researchers who come together mainly to money, under a leader whose bolder vision is “What happens if we sell more ads about sunglasses”, it won’t.