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Mark Zuckerberg is planning more AI as the focus of global tech majors shifts to artificial intelligence. He announced, via a post on Threads, that his company, Meta, is entering the race to develop an artificial general intelligence (AGI) system. Notably, Mark Zuckerberg is a key figure in the tech world, known for creating Facebook, the first widely used social media platform. It’s still in operation today and continues to be the most popular social media platform. That’s why, his words carry weight in the industry. And if he’s planning to create AGI, it’d be something discussed largely.
Mark Zuckerberg’s next mission is to build artificial general intelligence (AGI)
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg announced Meta’s ambitious plan to develop its advanced artificial intelligence, specifically aiming for AGI. Those wondering what’s that, it’s a type of artificial intelligence that can potentially surpass human intelligence in diverse domains.
Meta CEO further expressed Meta’s intention to not only leverage this advanced AI internally but also to make it available for external developers to use. Open source it. Zuckerberg explained further in a video on Threads. He said that if we want better computer programs like chatbots and tools for creators and businesses, we need to make an ingenious computer system. He believes that it’s time to create a kind of computer intelligence that can understand and do a lot of different things.
There’s no timeline, though
He briefly mentioned that this change is going to help the company speed up its research work. Eventually, this will make the metaverse – which is like a virtual space where people can interact – even better. One should note that there’s no fixed timeline. But, if we recall Meta’s Chief AI scientist’s previous remarks. Yann LeCun had previously said that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is decades away.
To power this super-smart system, Zuckerberg mentioned they’re planning to use about 350,000 special computer chips. They also want to bring together their two big research groups, FAIR and GenAI, to work faster. By the end of the decade, Zuckerberg thinks that many people will use smart glasses (like the ones they’re making with Ray-Ban Meta) to interact with these super-smart computers.
Meanwhile, other tech majors like Microsoft, Google, and Amazon are not lagging behind. However, some people are worried about the possible problems these super-smart computers could cause. And that’s something to keep an eye on.