Does Mark Zuckerberg care about improving humanity? He’s never previously shown much interest in the subject.
Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.
Submitted 8 months ago by Davriellelouna@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.meta.com/superintelligence/
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echodot@feddit.uk 7 months ago
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months 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.
Bogasse@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
So he’s now over with AR honeymoon?
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
PostaL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
but doesn’t even define what superintelligence means.
Or what he thinks “improve humanity” means …
yumyumsmuncher@feddit.uk 7 months ago
It means he found another way to get richer with the excuse of “connecting” or “improving” society. Fucking idiot
GTFO of Meta services
alecbowles@feddit.uk 7 months 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
Gudl@feddit.org 7 months ago
Zuck the fuck
Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 7 months 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.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Can’t Soros just harvest babies and feed the bots adrenochrome?
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Wile E Coyote, super geeeenius.
BlueBaggy@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
It means whatever makes him the most money.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 months 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.
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It means mass surveillance
postcapitalism@lemmy.today 7 months ago
What about the “metaverse”? I thought that was your thing?
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months 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)
FuckFascism@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Planet of the apes the reboot trilogy; I’ve never watched any of the originals so I can’t speak for those.
GaMEChld@lemmy.world 7 months 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.
fubarx@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Any ethical super intelligence would immediately remove billionaires from power. I’d like to see that.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
A superintelligence would likely quickly become the sovereign of the earth. And it’s generally a good idea to kill the old elite after conquering a nation, then install new ones. The new ones will like you, because you made them rich, and they’ll fear you, because you killed off all of their predecessors. Of course, there’s also the risk that a super intelligence would just do away with humans in general. But anybody holding significant power right now is much more at risk.
And we can’t forget that we currently can’t even build something that’s actually intelligent, and that a super intelligence might not actually be possible.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
If AI ends up destroying us, I’d say it’s unlikely to be because it hates us or wants to destroy us per se - more likely it just treats us the way we treat ants. We don’t usually go out of our way to wipe out ant colonies, but if there’s an anthill where we’re putting up a house, we don’t think twice about bulldozing it. Even in the cartoonish “paperclip maximizer” thought experiment, the end of humanity isn’t caused by a malicious AI - it’s caused by a misaligned one.
Perspectivist@feddit.uk 7 months ago
Superintelligence doesn’t imply ethics. It could just as easily be a completely unconscious system that’s simply very, very good at crunching data.
a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 7 months ago
I’m sorry, what happened to the metaverse Zuck?
Kurious84@lemmings.world 7 months 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.
Therobohour@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s some big joke bond villain energy
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 months ago
Anyone remember about what year AD the Butlerian Jihad happened according to the books?
blargle@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Ooh I know: it means “smart enough to make Eliezer Yudkowsky think it’s smarter than he is.”
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Will AI finally replace CEOs?
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The only job they can actually do as well as their human counterparts
Almacca@aussie.zone 8 months ago
I’m deeply suspicious of anyone these days that writes a manifesto. They’re generally up to no good.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Hey Zuck, suck it!
Turious@leaf.dance 8 months ago
Was Meta stock dipping and needed a boost? Fraud is legal now, so I guess that’s fine.
HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
“I don’t know why. They ‘trust me’. Dumb fucks”
That Zuckerberg?
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Can you imagine how much better everything would be if FaceBook was created by Pedro Pascal instead of Zuckerberg?
And I mean everything.
brendansimms@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Done. Zuckerberg is now starring as Joel in The Last of Us.
MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Thats very far away from a position of control.
I’ll take it.
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 8 months 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.
Muffi@programming.dev 7 months ago
Zuck the fuck up