In an effort to help humanity accelerate its rate of progress, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO, Meta Platforms has outlined a plan for using the company’s AI resources to create personal superintelligence.
The lengthy memo by Zuckerberg was issued before the company’s Q2 earnings results. He stated people should be able to use AI superintelligence to achieve their personal goals.
“Meta’s vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone,” he said. “We believe in putting this power in people’s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.”
The CEO contrasted Meta’s approach as “distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output”.
While he did not define what superintelligence is, or how the company will develop it, Meta’s plan to deliver it will include products such as augmented reality glasses and virtual reality headsets.
“Meta believes strongly in building personal superintelligence that empowers everyone,” he explained. “We have the resources and the expertise to build the massive infrastructure required”. He added it would deliver the “new technology to billions of people across our products.”
Meta has long touted its open-source Llama models as a key differentiator compared to AI rivals OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, and xAI.
“We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible. That said, superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns. We’ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source.”
Zuckerberg was asked on the Q2 earnings call whether the move to personal superintelligence means the company is no longer a big proponent of open source for its AI models.
“I don’t think that our thinking has particularly changed on this,” he said. “We’ve always open sourced some of our models and not open sourced everything that we’ve done.”
He said there are several trends playing out related to AI models, including some of them being too big to share with others.
“We kind of wrestle with whether it’s productive or helpful to share that or if that’s really just primarily helping competitors,” he said. “As you approach real superintelligence, I think there’s a whole different set of safety concerns that I think we need to take very seriously. But I think the bottom line is, I would expect that we will continue open sourcing work”.
The AI superintelligence manifesto follows Zuckerberg’s formation of a Meta Superintelligence Labs (MSL) team in early July to boost the company’s AI efforts while competing against rivals including Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and xAI.
Source: Mobile World Live
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