In Mark Zuckerberg’s post today about superintelligence, I assume we’re getting a glimpse of the pitch he used to hire AI researchers away from other companies:

We believe in putting this power in people’s hands to direct it towards what they value in their own lives.

This is distinct from others in the industry who believe superintelligence should be directed centrally towards automating all valuable work, and then humanity will live on a dole of its output.

@manton This quote sounds like a straw-man argument.

@manton Weirdly, this is the most reasonable, grounded take I’ve seen coming from a founder. Seriously, look at what Amodei and Altman are saying about “superintelligence”. Also weirdly, theirs is the most open set of models coming out of big tech.

@rom @markstoneman Yeah, I have no idea if he believes this. I think superintelligence is a means to an end for Meta. It’s a way to serve more ads and control the next platform (glasses).

@gclves However much I might dislike Meta’s business, I do agree that this way of differentiating Meta’s AI strategy from everyone else is effective. My only problem with his “dole” line is that we really have no idea what will be needed from government to support workers in the future.