• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      2 months 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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    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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      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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      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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    2 months ago

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

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    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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    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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      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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    but doesn’t even define what superintelligence means.

    Or what he thinks “improve humanity” means …

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

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    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