In an interview that came out Thursday, Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta, talked about his hopes for the future of AI. He said that he strongly thinks there will not be “just one AI.” While talking about how open source can help many people get AI tools, Zuckerberg took a moment to criticize the work of rivals who he didn’t name because he thinks they aren’t being open. He said that these competitors seem to think they are “creating God.”
In a new YouTube interview with Kane Sutter (@Kallaway), Zuckerberg said, “I don’t think that AI technology should be kind of hoarded and… that one company gets to use it to build whatever central, single product that they’re building.”
“It really turns me off when tech people talk about making this ‘one true AI,'” he said. He said, “It’s almost like they think they’re making God or something, but that’s not what we’re doing.” “That’s not how I see this going.”
“I see why, if you’re in an AI lab…” You want to think that what you’re doing is really important, right? It sounds like, “We’re making the one real thing for the future.” But, you know, in real life, that’s not how things work, right?” Zuckerberg talked about it. “It’s not like everyone has just one app on their phone that they use.” Not everyone wants all of their material to come from the same person. People don’t want to buy everything from just one store.
During the talk, Zuckerberg said that many different AIs should be made to capture people’s wide range of hobbies. Thursday, the company also announced early tests of its AI Studio software in the U.S. This software will let artists and other people make AI avatars that can message people on Instagram. The AIs will be able to chat with people and answer questions from their fans in a fun way. To avoid confusion, they will be marked as “AI.”
As an example, the CEO of Meta said he didn’t think companies that build closed AI systems were making the best experiences for people.
He went on, “You want to unlock and…unlock as many people as possible to try new things.” “Well, that’s what culture is, right?” Nobody is letting one group of people tell everyone what to do.
His words sound a bit like he’s upset because they came out soon after news that Meta had tried to talk to Apple about putting its AIs into Apple’s operating systems instead of just working with OpenAI at launch, but was turned down. Bloomberg says that Apple chose not to have formal talks with Meta because it didn’t think Meta’s privacy policies were strong enough.
Without a deal, Meta will not be able to reach the billions of iPhone users that could be in the world. It looks like Meta’s plan B is to make technology that can be used for more than just smartphones.
During the conversation, Zuckerberg talked about the progress the company is making with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses. He said that one day, this progress would meet up with the work that is already being done on full holographic displays. But, he said, the first one will be more popular in the short run.
He said, “I actually think you can make a great experience with cameras, a microphone, speakers, and the ability to do multimodal AI.” This was before the glasses had any kind of display. It also costs less because it doesn’t have a screen. The Meta Quest Pro costs $1,000, while Meta’s smart glasses cost around $300.
Before convergence, Zuckerberg said there will be three different kinds of products: smart glasses without screens, displays that show information on the top of the head, and full hologram displays. He said that one day, people might not have neural interfaces attached to their brains but instead wear a wristband that picks up signals from the brain and lets their hand talk to it. This would let them talk to the neural link with their hand that is barely moving. In time, it might also let people type.
Zuckerberg did warn that these kinds of inputs and AI experiences might not be able to replace smartphones right away. “I don’t think that in the history of technology, the new platform has ever made people stop using the old one completely.” “You just don’t use it as much,” he said.
People do things on their phones now that they might have done on their computers 10 to 15 years ago.
He said, “I think that will also happen with glasses.” “We’re not going to give up our phones.” You’ll just keep it in your pocket and only pull it out when you need to use it. But I think more and more people will just say, “Hey, I can take this picture with my glasses on.” The CEO said, “I can ask AI this question or send someone a message; it’s just a lot easier with glasses.”
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The speaker said, “I wouldn’t be surprised if, in 10 years, we still have phones, but we’ll probably use them in a much more deliberate way instead of just grabbing them for any technological task we want to do.”
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