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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 82 points 3 days ago (3 children)

This feels like its saying "outsource your critical thinking and agency to us, and don't worry about it"?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Feels like it's saying "Hey you stupid fucking investors who will believe anything, why don't you give me another hundred billion dollars for these magic beans?"

[–] cecilkorik@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago

These magic beans will not only grow twice as fast, they'll also fix the last magic beans that didn't grow.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

His vision sounds like "let us listen to, and see every task you do, so that we can command the world centrally from my business"

Zuckerberg predicted that personal AI systems that deeply understand users’ goals will become increasingly important, with devices like smart glasses becoming primary computing tools because they can understand context by seeing and hearing what users experience.

Google Glasses 2.0 but with even more privacy concerns, literally a horrible idea. He's just hype cycling his unpopular glasses.

[–] opavader@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

they make money by being digital pimps for snake oil products. lower the critical thinking of peasants, higher the chances of them getting fooled by targeted ads of scams and fake garbage.

try searching for any chronic illness on chrome or talk about it on whatsapp and you will be getting ads for miracle cures for months.

[–] PostaL@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.

Or what he thinks "improve humanity" means ...

[–] dinckelman@lemmy.world 46 points 3 days ago

It means whatever the shareholders wanna hear, because they slobber each others knob for literally fucking anything, that sounds like it’ll make money from a pump and dump

[–] OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 days ago

"I don't know why. They 'trust me'. Dumb fucks"

That Zuckerberg?

[–] yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago

It means he found another way to get richer with the excuse of "connecting" or "improving" society. Fucking idiot

GTFO of Meta services

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

AIs are a long way away from even normal intelligence. Currently, they are parrots with dictionaries. They have no insight or real reflection on what they are doing. I am not sure I will see real artificial intelligence in my lifetime.

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What people also regularly forget is how insanely inefficient AI is. We need exponential amounts of energy for linear increasement in "AI power" (idk what's the correct term). So to gain twice the power we need 4x the amount of energy to achieve this. Since we are not anywhere near being close to "super intelligence" AI would hit its limit in how much energy we can provide before it even coming close.

Can't Soros just harvest babies and feed the bots adrenochrome?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does Mark Zuckerberg care about improving humanity? He's never previously shown much interest in the subject.

The guy that has the worst business ethics wants to use a product to "improve humanity." Remember the last time he said that? He sure did do a good job of unifying and connecting everyone in a healthy way. I love how he's so confident he can do it again.

[–] beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Will AI finally replace CEOs?

[–] Red0ctober@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

The only job they can actually do as well as their human counterparts

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAA

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[–] alecbowles@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Sure. We can all trust Zuckerberg to help improve humanity. He has the credentials! Look how much we have improved in the last 15 years Facebook is a thing. Is not like Meta contributed to Genocide, election interference, the rise of conspiracy theorists, sold our data to the highest bidder etc etc /s

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

It means mass surveillance

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

Zuck the fuck up

[–] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 7 points 2 days ago

I'm sorry, what happened to the metaverse Zuck?

[–] BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

It means whatever makes him the most money.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

If you’re genuinely interested in what “artificial superintelligence” (ASI) means, you can just look it up. Zuckerberg didn’t invent the term - it’s been around for decades, popularized lately by Nick Bostrom’s book Superintelligence.

The usual framing goes like this: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) is an AI system with human-level intelligence. Push it beyond human level and you’re talking about Artificial Superintelligence - an AI with cognitive abilities that surpass our own. Nothing mysterious about it.

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago

Man, I wish this guy would fuck off somewhere and just retire. Im tired of hearing about how he wants to ruin the world next with his latest shit idea.

[–] derry@midwest.social 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sniffing his own farts again I see

[–] Emptiness@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Robots have exhausts now?

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Isn't/wasn't he a programmer? He can't possibly believe what he is saying.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I know some really damn delusional programmers.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

I once saw a supervisor use Google sheets to do a simple calculation. Could have opened the windows calculator, could have typed it into Google, could have done lots of things. But no, they created a new Google Sheet, performed one arithmetic equation, and then closed the browser.

I was so amused by this that I decided to program a 10-key calculator complete with memory recall in Google Sheets using Google Apps Script. I've made some wild Sheets over the years and have abused spreadsheets into things they're not, but that's my favorite, most useless Sheet ever. Whenever I show it to people, their first reaction is, "yeah, that's a calculator, that's a pretty simple tool." But then when they realize that I wrote actual code to assign values to add then clear checkboxes and then store all these values, they look at me with genuine concern.

I know this isn't the kind of delusional you're talking about, but just wanted to share.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

He was a psychology major that made a website with PHP. His background in CS is taking a few classes before dropping out.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

At least use Wikipedia before talking nonsense.

Zuckerberg learned computer programming in his childhood. At about the age of eleven, he created "ZuckNet", a program that allowed computers at the family home and his father's dental office to communicate with each other.[10] During Zuckerberg's high-school years, he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits, which was posted to Slashdot[11] and received a rating of 3 out of 5 from PC Magazine.[12]

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 2 days ago

he worked to build a music player called the Synapse Media Player. The device used machine learning to learn the user's listening habits

Oh, so then he did already establish what superintelligence is.

(I miss original Pandora)

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Zuck hasn't touched code in decades. He's far too busy cheating on his wife at the Jeff Bezos / Elon Musk Underaged Orgy Tent for that nonsense.

[–] GaMEChld@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Serious question. Did none of these mother fuckers watch The Terminator? Or The Matrix?

(fun project, reply back with more movies in the same vein of humanity inventing our evolutionary successors)

[–] FuckFascism@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Planet of the apes the reboot trilogy; I've never watched any of the originals so I can't speak for those.

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[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Hey Zuck, suck it!

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

I have a hard time coming up with any technology past the year 2000 that has improved my life in any way. I have my doubts.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

mRNA vaccine technology that made the two most effective COVID vaccines saving millions of lives was pretty great.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Also radically improved my cell phone reception.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago (2 children)

It’s nice to always have a flashlight on your person.

Blue LEDs are recent and pretty cool.

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[–] RobotZap10000@feddit.nl 5 points 3 days ago

You would sure be hard-pressed to think of any good thing involving Mark Zuckerberg, alright.

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

Anyone remember about what year AD the Butlerian Jihad happened according to the books?

[–] Kurious84@lemmings.world 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's the intelligence in captain marvel.

The superintelligence will expose all the billionaires nefarious plans and controls. No way they will allow the public access to their schemes. Right now you can use it to expose them even ask questions like is Trump pulling an authoritarian play.

Simply asked the question.

Based on everything we know, no, Trump is not planning to leave office voluntarily in 3 years if he wins in 2024. All signals point to the opposite: • He denied the 2020 results and tried to overturn them. • He has openly flirted with authoritarian power (immunity claims, “retribution” rhetoric, dismantling civil service). • His allies (e.g. Project 2025) are laying groundwork for expanded executive control. • He’s praised dictators and criticized democratic limits. • He has no public plan for peaceful transition or grooming a successor.

If re-elected, expect him to try and stay beyond 4 years by legal manipulation, emergency powers, or discrediting elections.

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

The thing is, he is referencing specifically a model that recently demonstrated (to its developers at least) the ability to self improve without direct human input. But obviously there are caveats to what that actually means.

That he is referencing something specific and recent though makes me think he's being genuine here, he believes what he is saying.

Obviously, hes almost certainly jumping the gun. Hes demonstrated a lack of critical thinking when it comes to new technological developments. See: all the money he dumped into VR and the Metaverse. (I say this as much as I personally like VR, its not exactly a money maker)

I see some commenters here pointing out that he is a coder, but he's probably not coded anything for more than a decade at this point. He is fully immersed in the Silicon Valley koolaid, only he seems to use more public facing optimism about AI compared to other CEOs.

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[–] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Dude is full of himself.

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