Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings

martythemaniak

Well, directly managing all your employees is the new hot trend and how else are you gonna do it?

stogot

Sounds like a shareholder lawsuit coming in 3, 2, 1.

ex1fm3ta

Zucerkberg is particularly talented in investing huge amount of money in stupid things.

34aqksH

These people are certifiable and have too much money to misallocate on nonsense. This is like Gavin Belson's holographic avatar (which of course did not work).

flibbityflob

How will a machine ever replace his famous warmth or empathy?

rootusrootus

Well, I've said for a while that CEOs are probably easier to replace with LLMs than programmers. Zuck agrees?!

throwanem

How would you tell?

hanyki111

For artificial intelligence to replace oneself, it would need a digital copy of one's way of thinking. I believe this is impossible to implement with current AI.

neko_ranger

if you invented mark zuckerberg, you'd have invented mark zuckerberg

alex1138

I've never seen him as honest. Whatever you think of individual incidents (was Cambridge Analytica a real scandal politically or just a data scandal? - or whatever) he's just... not a... well, he's a "careless person" ( https://www.amazon.com/Careless-People-Cautionary-Power-Idea... ) Facebook's entire history is them either changing privacy on post settings, or changing TOS (rug pulling) or people not being able to either see each others posts ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14147719 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32826437 ) or not being able to contact each other ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4151433 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6090712 )

qoez

As the CEO a much easier solution would be to just learn to delegate more and refuse more meetings.

saaaaaam

This is extraordinary. The FT piece says "They added that the character was being trained on the billionaire’s mannerisms, tone and publicly available statements, as well as his own recent thinking on company strategies, so that employees might feel more connected to the founder through interactions with it." Surely the more likely outcome is that employees feel less connected to "the founder" because they know that there's a high chance they are simply talking to an AI clone?

marksully

robot to replace a robot

myself248

Imagine all the salary they'll save!

ZiiS

So either the AI clone will make different decisions; or it will also replace itself with an AI clone...

dwa3592

might be too robotic for the AI!

ckastner

I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sales representatives. But I'm surprised that the risks seem to be so underestimated. Once this clone exists, what happens if it gets out into the wild? Imagine everyone having full access do what is effectively a digital model of your personality. Imagine your competition putting your own model to use against you. And the better the approximation of this model, the worse the damage to yourself.

oulipo2

Wait!! He's not ALREADY a robot?

yoyohello13

Imagine if this becomes popular. I'm sure CEOs will still be able to justify their massive salaries.

etchalon

And no value was lost.