Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.

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• partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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?”

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    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨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.

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    The Meta founder distinguished his company’s approach from others in the industry who “believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output.”

    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.

    Sounds a lot like a privacy smashing machine tied into Google Glasses 2.0, literally a horrible idea.

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  • opavader@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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

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• OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  “I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’. Dumb fucks”

  That Zuckerberg?

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• beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Will AI finally replace CEOs?

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  • Red0ctober@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

  GTFO of Meta services

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• Treczoks@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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.

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  • cows_are_underrated@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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• PostaL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  but doesn’t even define what superintelligence means.

  Or what he thinks “improve humanity” means …

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• MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAA

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Gus Fring laughing, then frowning.

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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.

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• a1studmuffin@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It means whatever makes him the most money.

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• Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  If you’re genuinely interested in what “artificial superintelligence” means, you can just look it up. Zuckerberg didn’t invent the term - it’s been around for decades, popularized 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.

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• FuckFascism@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It means mass surveillance

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• NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

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• dan1101@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • bigfondue@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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]

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  • Xaphanos@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I know some really damn delusional programmers.

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    • fartographer@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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• derry@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Sniffing his own farts again I see

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  • Emptiness@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Robots have exhausts now?

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• etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also radically improved my cell phone reception.

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

    Blue LEDs are recent and pretty cool.

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    • rottingleaf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I fucking hate blue leds. They cause migraines, and even when not - irritate the hell out of my eyes.

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  • RobotZap10000@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Play games in VR everyday is really good if you want an easy excuse to exercise and move your body more.

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    • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I get plenty of that at work but I suppose most people don't. I feel like the Nintendo Wii got more people moving than VR though.

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  • Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’ve become a bit of a fan of memory foam.

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    • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I think that's fairly old but maybe there's some new advancements.

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Torrents are pretty nice. I also enjoy the newer lines of flat-screens, particularly when I want to move a monitor without throwing out my back.

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  • perishthethought@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SD cards?

    Huge USB thumb drives?

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    • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Huge USB thumb drive

      Huge USB thumb drive

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    • etherphon@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I mean they're convenient but not exactly life changing. 20 years ago you were reading about these batteries that last forever or that dental decay was a thing of the past and it seems like we have made little progress, or progress was made and then rescinded for profit.

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• alecbowles@feddit.uk ⁨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

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• Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Image

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• GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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)

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  • FuckFascism@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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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    • GaMEChld@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oooh, yeah I’ve been meaning to watch those, I loved the first one of that series but never got around to watching the rest.

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• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hey Zuck, suck it!

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• HalfSalesman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  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 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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  • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A jabber bot that slightly improved (through pre training) it’s words per minute when responding but is still just mindlessly jabbering/hallucinating is just as dumb as it was before. I mean random chance is a not insignificant factor with LLMs… But also, it’s a pretty big assumption these days that “scientific” papers mean anything. There’s already been sobmany fraudulent LLM papers, like LLMs “teaching themselves other languages” or LLMs “showing ability to reason” when all of that was just a product of the training data.

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• Muffi@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Zuck the fuck up

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• Bogasse@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?

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• Brkdncr@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Dude is full of himself.

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• Kurious84@lemmings.world ⁨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.

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• postcapitalism@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  What about the “metaverse”? I thought that was your thing?

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• Almacca@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’m deeply suspicious of anyone these days that writes a manifesto. They’re generally up to no good.

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• Turious@leaf.dance ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Was Meta stock dipping and needed a boost? Fraud is legal now, so I guess that’s fine.

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