Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email
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Onstage at SIGGRAPH in Denver, Colorado, on Monday, Zuckerberg and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang discussed the Meta boss's vision: A world in which custom AI agents – trained to mimic your personality or brand – might help someone prepare for a difficult conversation, or interact with customers on their behalf long after they've signed off for the day.
"A lot of our vision is that we want to empower all the people who use our products to basically create agents for themselves," he gushed.
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"Whether that's all the many, many millions of creators that are on the platform, or the hundreds of millions of small businesses, we eventually want to just be able to pull in all your content, very quickly stand up a business agent, and be able to interact with your customers and do sales and customer support."
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You can replay their chat below.
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This vision is at the heart of Meta's [6]AI Studio offering. It aims to make it easier for users to take its pre-trained Llama models and, as Zuckerberg puts it, "make it so every creator can build sort of an AI version of themselves." This agent or assistant could then be put to work interacting with your followers in a tone and style that mimics your own.
For online communities with such high moral standards as Facebook or Instagram, we can't imagine how that possibly could go wrong.
Nonetheless, Zuckerberg expects these agents to take all different shapes and sizes, and be used for everything from automating monotonous tasks to entertainment and meme generators.
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Ever a believer in augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR), Zuckerberg also suggested that customers might talk to their AI self using AR glasses – like the ones Meta developed in [8]collaboration with Ray-Ban. Just imagine getting a pep talk from your smart glasses.
[9]Apple Intelligence beta lands in iOS 18.1, macOS 15.1 previews
[10]Meta's AI safety system defeated by the space bar
[11]Google DeepMind's latest models kinda sorta take silver at Math Olympiad
[12]Meta claims 'world's largest' open AI model with Llama 3.1 405B debut
However, for customers and enterprises that would rather not give Meta or its various properties access to any more of their data than they already have, Zuckerberg also echoed his commitment to open AI development.
At the heart of all of these efforts is Meta's Llama family of open large language models – the latest and largest version of which [13]launched last week, boasting anywhere from 8 billion to 405 billion parameters, a 128,000-token context window, and support for eight languages.
"I thought Llama 2 was probably the biggest event in AI last year … because when that came out, it activated every company, every enterprise, and every industry" to embrace AI, Huang remarked of the decision to open source the models.
Unfortunately for investors hoping Meta and others' AI infrastructure investments will pay off sooner rather than later, Zuckerberg reiterated that this work won't happen overnight.
"Even if the progress on the foundation models stopped now, which I don't think it will, I think we'd have five years of product innovation for the industry to figure out how to most effectively use all the stuff that's gotten built so far," he explained.
Whether or not a clearer picture of Meta's AI strategy will assuage investors' anxiety will become clearer after the biz reports its Q2 earnings on Wednesday. But, as you may recall, setting realistic expectations didn't exactly go over that well with investors the [14]last time .
And it's not like shareholders don't have reason to be worried. As Huang was keen to point out toward the end of their chat, Zuckerberg's business has been one of Nvidia's best customers. Meta is on track to deploy some 600,000 of Nvidia's GPUs, which you may recall can [15]cost anywhere from $30,000 to $40,000 apiece. Investors will want to know exactly what that is buying them. ®
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personalized AI assistants for all
Nope, no thanks, would rather not, no siree. Not for me. Take it away, begone.
Re: personalized AI assistants for all
Aww, big manufacturers just love it when you play hard to get.
Re: personalized AI assistants for all
Counterpoint: you can instruct your AI assistant to tell people you don't like to fuck off and then just blame the AI's programming.
Re: personalized AI assistants for all
"like mail" ... got me thinking.
Maybe a personal AI assitant reading all my corporate mails and summarizing them as "just the usual BS today" or attending 4 hrs of listen-only Teams calls while creating a summary of the interesting 30 seconds would be a _real_ productivity gain after all :)
Re: 4 hrs of listen-only Teams calls
but.... the AI assistant would edit the contents to what it thinks you want to hear not what actually went on.
Good luck with keeping that job after you get it all wrong.
Dear Mark
No.
Just no.
Re: Dear Mark
We have known each other for nearly 20 years and it wasn't even love on first sight. I don't think I ever loved you Facebook. For a bit, when my Mum died, you were very useful in 2011.
But you whored yourself. And now you come back with 'lipstick-on-a-pig' spill and expect me to believe you have chan... Oh. PyTorch is nice. Motion capture too. Um...
No. Not quite yet Mark, but you are looking great. Love your hair and that Top G (Tate can only dream) chain.
Llama is a peach BTW. I think having a kid has matured you. And lets not forget how much coin you have, so
nice heads up
Watched the vid. Mark looking good and much more confident. You can imagine working for him now whereas when he started the meta stuff he was still Facebook/Insta shaved-head droid.
For those that think It redemption isn't possible, at least a step in that direction, take note of the videos content.
Meta have spent big. really really big on AI for at least 5 years now. We have used many of their pieces of work within our models. They are excellent at vision and motion to name but one thing.
The moral aspects of this are worth looking at and stopping Facebook 2. Chances are better this time around.
His vision is all apps become AI. No Insta/Facebook. That 20th Century concept of contained apps is dying. One ring ...
"personalized AI assistants for all " is right but not complete. AI will generate everything just for you or just for someone else - whatever you want. It will be freeing.
Re: nice heads up
Barf.
Barf
Bang bang.
Quite a video of two giants of tech - love or hate them.
I don't agree with all of it. Zucker is wrong when he uses Apple as a dominant force in mobile - it was for a few years but not now... no way. Android is way ahead and if it was not Google it wd be my choice.
https://youtu.be/w-cmMcMZoZ4?si=rYlMBWtYYr7M5_sW&t=1958
is of interest in understanding hoe much Llama is used and how they fine tune models for tasks.
HTH, returd
Ah yes
Zuckfart owned 'personal assistants' for everyone. Welcome to having that little episode with a couch in your basement made public.
It will be a slurp fest.
Anyone stupid enough to sign up for this can say goodbye to what little privacy you have left.
See that 10,000,0000 ft bargepole in my hand? That's as close as I want to get to this stinking pile of fox feces.
Re: Ah yes
Ah yes you are nearly absolutely correct. Not all will this affect but there wont be a sign-up process. u r already 'signed-up'
Two choices:
1. Moan, bitch, shiver and die
2. Learn as much as u can about it and attempt some form of mastery
What's it gonna be boy/girl/prefer_not_to_say/non_binary/French?
The future as nightmare :o
Jonathan Haidt wrote on “social media” and how it reflected the mental landscape of its creators, semi-aspie cases. Curiously enough a transcript of which was erased from “social media”.
Re: The future as nightmare :o
"semi-aspie cases"
No. Not a respectful reference to the condition at all.
Haidt is a twat. "The role of intuition versus reason in moral judgement". No wonder you liked it so much you quote it.
Go and seek your wisdom with Jonny Boy in the deserts of Peru and find answers to questions we don't want or need. Chukkra yourself up.
Me, my ancestors digested that knowledge and wove it into the fabric of modern day society. Do try and keep up.
Zuckerberg also suggested that customers might talk to their AI self using AR glasses
Yeah, great idea, that's really how most of the planet's population are going to want to spend their time...
Which reminds me : how is that Metaverse thing going? Anyone using it? Or are you attempting to silently move on from that shit failed idea by coming up with a new shit idea that's going to fail?
Imagine the morning when you wake up after a heavy night with a hangover and no memory of buying those 57 gross of substandard inflatable flamingos!
Now imagine you are stone cold sober and discover it was your AI assistant that ordered them for you...
Definitely NOT a 'twonky'
No, not at all:
"Tweedy college professor discovers his new TV set is animate, apparently possessed by something from the future, and militantly intent on regulating his daily life."
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046475/