Zuckerberg Says Ai Superintelligence Is 'in Sight,' Touts 'new Era Of Personal Empowerment'

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Wednesday that nan creation of superintelligent artificial intelligence is “now successful sight” and that it will herald a “new era of individual empowerment.”

Zuckerberg said that Meta’s attack will beryllium “different from others successful nan industry” because it will attraction connected processing AI superintelligence to use people’s individual life, alternatively than directing AI to automate activity — a rising interest arsenic much and much companies move to replace entry-level roles pinch AI.

“AI keeps accelerating, and complete nan past fewer months, we’ve begun to spot glimpses of AI systems improving themselves,” Zuckerberg said successful a video posted connected Facebook. “So processing superintelligence is now successful sight, but there’s this large unfastened mobility astir what we should nonstop superintelligence towards.”

“I deliberation that an moreover much meaningful effect successful our lives is going to travel from everyone having a individual superintelligence that helps you execute your goals, create what you want to spot successful nan world, beryllium a amended friend and turn to go nan personification that you aspire to be,” Zuckerberg said.

Zuckerberg announced past period nan creation of Meta Superintelligence Labs, a caller portion of nan institution that will activity to create these caller technological capabilities. This task toward superintelligence is projected to costs Meta “hundreds of billions of dollars,” Zuckerberg has antecedently said. The institution besides has plans to build respective AI “superclusters” for nan improvement of superintelligence, 1 of which is slated to beryllium completed by adjacent year.

People person progressively been turning to AI chatbots for individual reasons, with a study from Elon University finding that 51% of respondents usage ample connection models for individual endeavors alternatively than work-related activities.

Zuckerberg added successful nan video that he believes “personal devices for illustration glasses” could beryllium a large portion of superintelligence successful mundane life, nodding to Meta’s improvement of AI glasses.

“I judge profoundly successful building individual superintelligence for everyone,” Zuckerberg said. “And astatine Meta, we person nan resources to build nan monolithic infrastructure required and nan expertise to present caller exertion to billions of people.”

Meta is connected a recruiting spree for apical talent successful AI. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said past period that Meta was attempting to poach OpenAI employees by offering them $100 cardinal bonuses and compensation packages. Altman added that “so acold nary of our champion group person decided to return them up connected that.”