The Future Is for Everyone – The Path to a Positive AI Future

cautiouscat

The first part kind of had me going “oh wow, this doesn’t seem like a thinly veiled advertisement for once”. You know, the common thing we see from frontier labs. Then I got to the examples. > my agent plans personalized recipes for us to make together each weekend, orders the ingredients, and then offers suggestions as we're baking. I mean universe forbid you from using a recipe from one of the many talented bakers on YOUR platform. Or even better, asking a family member or family friend.

nadis

> Invention, not automation, will be the greatest contribution of superintelligence. Early AI could answer questions and do routine work. Soon it will increasingly help discover new knowledge -- ranging from discovering new drugs to cure a family member's disease to finding new ways to improve your business. While the number of questions a person can ask in a day is limited, the number of valuable things superintelligence can invent to help achieve your goals is unlimited. Sort of a half-baked tangent of a thought but is it really possible for an AI superintelligence to "invent"?

jmathai

Funny that it bashes a future where AI destroys jobs but embraces one where it destroys relationships and wellbeing.

qwe12l

The propaganda becomes more and more desperate. This is like churches promising the afterlife for a tithe. The end goal is centralization, thin clients, complete dependency on the AI cartel, surveillance and devaluing intelligence. People do not like your product so how about just giving up? This is the Metaverse all over again. A couple of tech nerds, many of whom need intellectual assistance, are hooked and try to sell it to healthy people.

sgt

Is there a browser extension somewhere that allows me to hear this out loud in Zuckerberg's voice?

myaccountonhn

No mention of the environmental risks of data center expansion. That's unfortunate.

nathan_compton

I will literally never believe that Meta gives a shit about the future. Their reputation is so far in the toilet from my point of view that it is already in the sewer.

rob74

My overarching thought after reading as much as I could stand of this is: "Wow, sure sounds like Zuck really drank his own Kool-Aid - or if he didn't, at least he wants us all to believe that he did!". The question is not whether "superintelligence" will be accomplished, the question is only how fast. I mean, LLMs are nice, but the jury's still out on whether they alone will be enough for "superintelligence"... > I do not understand why anyone who believes that AI will eliminate most jobs and much of humanity's relevance would rush to build that future. Because they can make a sh*tload of money by doing it (or at least they hope they can)?

Noaidi

I am glad I use a host blocker so I do not have to read this nonsense. People, more so you people with kids, the world is burning. Everything will change this year. ( https://www.elninolive.com/ ) That is the only future we should be focused on, all else is capitalist/corporate propaganda.

mrmarket

If meta’s marketing team had any self awareness about the state of the ‘brand’, they would know the absolute best thing they could do for probably the next year at least would be to de-emphasize and hide zuck as much as possible, shut their mouths, and try to fade into the background as a silent ‘parent company’. Then they could just let instagram be instagram and hope people forget its part of Meta at all, and if at any point they wanted to spin up or buy a new product, they would not publicize that it is owned by meta. Absolutely no one likes or trusts them. One of worst brands in recent memory at this point.

andrewrn

Wow how does Meta think anyone trusts their brand now? The lack of self-awareness is sorta funny honestly

lapcat

> Historically, hoping that an absolute power will benevolently provide for humanity if sufficiently enlightened has not led to safe or positive outcomes. Says the person with absolute power over the largest social network in the world. > Your agent will work 24/7 on your behalf to improve your relationships, health, career, finances, home management, hobbies, and more. It will free up time for the things you enjoy Wait, those are the things I enjoy. I suppose that Zuck means free up time for more Facebook scrolling.

thundercleeze

Press releases aren't really post worthy here right? This is just an ad.

OutOfHere

Fwiw, Whatsapp is only weakly encrypted. It presumably streams all metadata to the government. Also, if certain sensitive keywords are entered, e.g. pmurt in reverse, that too ostensibly triggers an immediate alert to the government to trigger further monitoring. Whatsapp's backups and notifications have also been well known to be risk vectors. Broadly speaking, most mobile devices and web browsers are extreme risk vectors.

ChrisArchitect

Related: Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49241679

ochronus

Ugh, I see "future" and "meta" in the same sentence, hard nope

VCFundedGenYer

This is just sad and pathetic.