Mark Zuckerberg Plans To Shake Up Meta's AI Efforts, Again
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/19/1748256/mark-zuckerberg-plans-to-shake-up-metas-ai-efforts-again
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Vice President of Generative AI Loredana Crisan is expected to announce her departure Tuesday. The company is exploring third-party AI models for its products rather than relying solely on internal technology. Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang's team has abandoned Meta's [2]previous frontier model Behemoth and is developing a new model from scratch, the report added.
[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/technology/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ai.html
[2] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/06/10/0738216/meta-is-creating-a-new-ai-lab-to-pursue-superintelligence
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I wish I had a nice WANG computer.
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They actually are worth a few bucks, in this case $300 shipped
[1]https://www.ebay.com/itm/22689... [ebay.com]
[1] https://www.ebay.com/itm/226891478018
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That's just a terminal.
If at first you don't succeed, (Score:2)
reorganize reorganize again.
In fairness... (Score:3)
A lot of smart people bought into the AI hype. If Meta didn't try to position themselves as a leader in the field, they would have been pummeled in the stock market. Zuckerberg may be rich, but he is still beholden to the will of the shareholders. If they are caught up in a bubble, then so is he.
The reality is kicking in. We just had an article right here on Slashdot today about how 95% of attempts at using AI in the corporate workplace were failing. I think the bubble is starting to pop. So, Meta is
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I don't think that anything fundamentally different is required, but it may well require a robot body with lots of seinsors, (This should be doable in simulation.)
And it's going to require continual learning, not session based learning.
Lots of "short cuts" that were taken to make things cheaper will need to be undone. The basic training has to be on real facts, not on whatever text you find on the internet. And those "real facts" need to map onto the data from the sensors. Don't feed your AI on lies and
Pivot to video (Score:2)
Err, the metaverse, err, AI, no, wait, let's do AI again.
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so... the 200 million hiring package still good?
CAIO (Score:2)
> Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang
CAIO? more like ciao, amirite?
Seriously though, how long before the trap door button gets pushed for this guy?
Zuckerberg is an incompetent boob (Score:3)
Everything he has tried to do since Facebook has failed miserably with that virtual reality nonsense being the cherry on top. He can fail as much as he wants though without any punishment because once you are admitted to the club you don't get kicked out as long as you don't screw with fellow club members.
Anyone else who was as bad at their job as Zuckerberg would have been fired ages ago.
It won't matter though because Facebook is one of the major platform holders and because of that they are going to eventually have a commanding lead with llms because they're going to be able to keep feeding training data into their llms . Meanwhile they're competitors are going to have to keep scraping websites which is getting increasingly difficult between antibot technologies and AI slop
Re: Zuckerberg is an incompetent boob (Score:2)
That Hot or Not app he made was pretty cool.
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He didn't come up with the concept though it came from a website. Honestly I wasn't even aware of zuckerberg's companies have put out a Hot or not app. The original website from 2000 looks to be owned by the same company that owns Ashley Madison
ZUCK is a GENIUS (Score:1)
Some people rail on Zuck.
But he did Fuck the Winklevii losers.
For that I say he's not all bad.
Apologize first (Score:5, Funny)
Apologize for the Metaverse first.
Re:Apologize first (Score:4, Funny)
Apologize for The Facebook first
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Nope, the CIA gave him seed funding for the facebook, so he ain't apologizing.
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Don't be so harsh on Mr. Zuckerberg, he provides a valuable public service by renaming his company after the trend on the day the trend dies.
When Zuckerberg announces that Meta will now be known as AGI (or whatever), that's how you know it's time to sell your shares in OpenAI/etc.