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Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’

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Renames his company into Artificial

Act now and collect those Meta t-shirts so in the future you can bank on the vintage tech swag clothing

I'd have to cut off my legs to wear that t-shirt

why is that?

Reference to avatars not having legs?

Intentional multi-layered comment?

Meta Intelligence... It really does very nicely encapsulate what FB is these days.

Whoa, I think you've stumbled upon the truth:

Facebook -> FB -> FB(I)

Meta Intelligence -> MI -> MI(6)

"introduce AI agents to billions of people"; yes, it checks out.

"Hi! I'm from the Facebook Bureau of Internetness and I'm here to help you."

Hmmm, "Meta Suckers" or "Meta Stupidity" seems more on point for their approach.

MS is already taken though. ;)

fAIcbook or MetAI

Really demonstrates how little he knows what he's doing.

Metaversarial Networks

The coming dystopian future: thousands of AI bots trying to collect your information and sell you products.

I look forward to the open source "ad block" AI bots that you can deploy to shield you from the scrapers and peddlers.

AI bots become "private eyes" for large corporations, governments, and anyone else with enough computing power to deploy and target them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U

AIs fighting AIs is the dystopian future I'm here for.

I don't think we would be able to access more advanced AIs than the big corporations and governments.

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what he wants. It matters what his AI agents want. Maybe they'll decide to stick with his profit-maximization script. That alone could be enough to take civilization down with it. Or maybe they'll decide to do something more creative. Point is... it's not clear that releasing all those AI bots on people is a net positive for Meta or anyone.

Im looking forward to them targeting him relentlessly due to wealth

Do we have a reason to believe the kinds of AI that people are talking about have wants? The gap between ChatGPT and personhood seems impassable.

That people are talking about today? Certainly not. That may emerge as these things scale up and we get better at building them, maybe.

“Agent” infers they have objectives and goals which isn’t too far off from “wants”.

An AI powered cruise missile might not “want” to hurt you but can make you have the worst day ever.

Once you start believing you can reason with them it’s already too late…

that's an awesome idea.

it looks like there is an emerging market of protecting people from AI.

detecting AI-generated "content" in what is supposed to be essays or research papers or even books by a person maybe.

blocking yourself from AI-generated ads and marketing tricks, possibly also leveraging AI to do that

"prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI"

etc

"prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI"

Love this the most haha

I sort of expect someone reading HN to eventually develop an AI so annoying that people just stop using the internet in interactive ways.

I’d love to buy from a bot and shop at my convenience - it’s one of the pros of online shopping

A human night tire of me asking too many questions or be unavailable after 5pm

Ha ha ha ha. Facebook is so desperate for new users and content that they are ready to generate it with AI agents talking to users.

This is going to be a great train wreck. Assume your seats kids and watch.

"Hey kiiids, it's me Facey!"

"AI agents for billions of people" doesn't sound sinister at all if you're a robot.

In before they change the top corporate entity to "Llama" (which owns Meta).

Facebook will become an infinitely recursive corporation.

A metacorporation, if you will.

I won't.

if you don't I will?

They should change their stock ticker and company name to "GPT" quickly before it gets trademarked.

Oh no. It’s his chatbot vision all over again.

The current crop of 'AI' are refined chatbots so it is no surprise he's back to this.

This sounds incredibly dystopian.

What happened to the Metaverse?

From today's earning's call.

    Now beyond AI, the other major technology wave that we're focused on is the metaverse. A narrative has developed that we're somehow moving away from focusing on the Metaverse vision. So I just want to say upfront that, that's not accurate. We've been focusing on both AI and the Metaverse for years now, and we will continue to focus on both. The two areas are also related. Breakthrough in computer vision was what enabled us to ship the first stand-alone VR device.

> Breakthrough in computer vision was what enabled us to ship the first stand-alone VR device

Is there any truth to this statement?

I suspect it's all just spin to avoid admitting that the whole metaverse thing was a huge waste of time and money.

Meta has led in the application of ML to computer vision for years now frankly. They have tons and tons of papers on computer vision using ML that are clearly and obviously applicable to metaverse-esque things.

(I have no stake in Meta in any form, just care about computer vision)

To ship the headset it had to be able to track it's position with submilimeter precision, with low jitter, in real time, and on cheap, mobile hardware, be able to track where controllers are, and be able to recognize existing rooms it's mapped before so it can restore the boundaries you've set up in the past. All of that was powered by computer vision. After the launch, hand tracking was another use of computer vision that was added.

You might be surprised how much machine learning goes into image processing, because it doesn’t get all the hype that chat bots do.

We shouldn’t conflate intelligence with being able to speak.

The computer vision based room, hand and controller tracking of the Quest 2 is frankly pretty amazing. I don’t have experience with any other devices, but I was shocked how good it was after impulse buying a Quest 2 a while back. I hardly ever use it anymore, but the tracking seems to get better every time I plug in and update the device.

I want to know if it was their own, or if they're taking credit for their Oculus acquisition and subsequent enshittification.

The Quest was their own. Facebook acquired Oculus before the kickstarter backers even got their DK1s.

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. -- old proverb

Honestly, at the rate this goes, I might get my .hack dream yet.

Comments are filled with snark. But I see 30% of the threads on this board being about AI lately. Facebook is a hugely powerful entity. Aren’t there some important discussions to be had about how these giant corporations choose to intermediate their empires with this new revolutionary tech? Cmon guys.

My grandma will be thrilled.

Entities, gollems, and AI Agents...

Pretty neat but, treat them nicely...

If I were mark I would also be concerned with how to separate human views and clicks of ads versus an enlightened so robot.

Tax the advertisers by traffic volume ie spam.

But that's for govt to do.

There is no cost right now to keeping spamming ppl and constant incentive to collect data to provide better attention thieving services.

As if Facebook isn't dystopic enough.

We don't need AIs. We need somebody to bad commercials for shitty stuff.

Billions of people... well I won't be one of them.

Why have legs when you can have ai

Another company rename coming? Last fad didn’t really work out

Last time was a fad because they Met AI.

Mark is an interesting fellow. He says and claims a lot of things. However, we need to filter what he says, because people aren't perfect. However, he is too imperfect. Too much of what he says in garbage, so we need to avoid his discussions and reactions.

Just what a bot would say.

How long before “bot” is a derogatory term? “Umm, cheeky monkey, we prefer artificial person!”

This os already the case - voice any unpopular opinion and youre a bot (russian, probably, too)

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