Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence
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“We have built up the capacity to do this at a scale that may be larger than any other individual company.”
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    1•8 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Fueling the generative AI craze is a belief that the tech industry is on a path to achieving superhuman, god-like intelligence.

    “But there are different dynamics here with multiple companies going for the same profile, [and] a lot of VCs and folks throwing money at different projects, making it easy for people to start different things externally.”

    After talent, the scarcest resource in the AI field is the computing power needed to train and run large models.

    As Zuckerberg explains it, Meta’s new, broader focus on AGI was influenced by the release of Llama 2, its latest large language model, last year.

    While Sam Altman and others espouse the safety benefits of a more closed approach to AI development, Zuckerberg sees a shrewd business play.

    “I don’t know how to more unequivocally state that we’re continuing to focus on Reality Labs and the metaverse,” he tells me, pointing to the fact that Meta is still spending north of $15 billion a year on the initiative.

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