Zuckerberg Promotes Superintelligence at Meta

<p>Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg released the following letter last week about his vision for Superintelligence and AI at Meta&colon;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves&period; The improvement is slow for now&comma; but undeniable&period; Developing superintelligence is now in sight&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It seems clear that in the coming years&comma; AI will improve all our existing systems and enable the creation and discovery of new things that aren&&num;8217&semi;t imaginable today&period; But it is an open question what we will direct superintelligence towards&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In some ways this will be a new era for humanity&comma; but in others it&&num;8217&semi;s just a continuation of historical trends&period; As recently as 200 years ago&comma; 90&percnt; of people were farmers growing food to survive&period; Advances in technology have steadily freed much of humanity to focus less on subsistence and more on the pursuits we choose&period; At each step&comma; people have used our newfound productivity to achieve more than was previously possible&comma; pushing the frontiers of science and health&comma; as well as spending more time on creativity&comma; culture&comma; relationships&comma; and enjoying life&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I am extremely optimistic that superintelligence will help humanity accelerate our pace of progress&period; But perhaps even more important is that superintelligence has the potential to begin a new era of personal empowerment where people will have greater agency to improve the world in the directions they choose&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>As profound as the abundance produced by AI may one day be&comma; an even more meaningful impact on our lives will likely come from everyone having a personal superintelligence that helps you achieve your goals&comma; create what you want to see in the world&comma; experience any adventure&comma; be a better friend to those you care about&comma; and grow to become the person you aspire to be&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meta&&num;8217&semi;s vision is to bring personal superintelligence to everyone&period; We believe in putting this power in people&&num;8217&semi;s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work&comma; and then humanity will live on a dole of its output&period; At Meta&comma; we believe that people pursuing their individual aspirations is how we have always made progress expanding prosperity&comma; science&comma; health&comma; and culture&period; This will be increasingly important in the future as well&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The intersection of technology and how people live is Meta&&num;8217&semi;s focus&comma; and this will only become more important in the future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>If trends continue&comma; then you&&num;8217&semi;d expect people to spend less time in productivity software&comma; and more time creating and connecting&period; Personal superintelligence that knows us deeply&comma; understands our goals&comma; and can help us achieve them will be by far the most useful&period; Personal devices like glasses that understand our context because they can see what we see&comma; hear what we hear&comma; and interact with us throughout the day will become our primary computing devices&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We believe the benefits of superintelligence should be shared with the world as broadly as possible&period; That said&comma; superintelligence will raise novel safety concerns&period; We&&num;8217&semi;ll need to be rigorous about mitigating these risks and careful about what we choose to open source&period; Still&comma; we believe that building a free society requires that we aim to empower people as much as possible&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The rest of this decade seems likely to be the decisive period for determining the path this technology will take&comma; and whether superintelligence will be a tool for personal empowerment or a force focused on replacing large swaths of society&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Meta believes strongly in building personal superintelligence that empowers everyone&period; We have the resources and the expertise to build the massive infrastructure required&comma; and the capability and will to deliver new technology to billions of people across our products&period; I&&num;8217&semi;m excited to focus Meta&&num;8217&semi;s efforts towards building this future&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>– Mark<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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