Mark Zuckerberg says Meta wants to ‘introduce AI agents to billions of people’

[m3kw9]

Renames his company into Artificial

[dylan604]

Act now and collect those Meta t-shirts so in the future you can bank on the vintage tech swag clothing

[senectus1]

MI

Meta Intelligence... It really does very nicely encapsulate what FB is these days.

[Ancalagon]

Really demonstrates how little he knows what he's doing.

[netsharc]

Intentional multi-layered comment?

[aigoochamna]

Metaversarial Networks

[xnx]

fAIcbook or MetAI

[thesuperbigfrog]

The coming dystopian future: thousands of AI bots trying to collect your information and sell you products.

I look forward to the open source "ad block" AI bots that you can deploy to shield you from the scrapers and peddlers.

[neotrope]

AIs fighting AIs is the dystopian future I'm here for.

[gonzo41]

I sort of expect someone reading HN to eventually develop an AI so annoying that people just stop using the internet in interactive ways.

[thesuperbigfrog]

AI bots become "private eyes" for large corporations, governments, and anyone else with enough computing power to deploy and target them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U

[makk]

Ultimately, it doesn't matter what he wants. It matters what his AI agents want. Maybe they'll decide to stick with his profit-maximization script. That alone could be enough to take civilization down with it. Or maybe they'll decide to do something more creative. Point is... it's not clear that releasing all those AI bots on people is a net positive for Meta or anyone.

[twelve40]

that's an awesome idea.

it looks like there is an emerging market of protecting people from AI.

detecting AI-generated "content" in what is supposed to be essays or research papers or even books by a person maybe.

blocking yourself from AI-generated ads and marketing tricks, possibly also leveraging AI to do that

"prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI"

etc

[foogazi]

I’d love to buy from a bot and shop at my convenience - it’s one of the pros of online shopping

A human night tire of me asking too many questions or be unavailable after 5pm

[startupsfail]

Ha ha ha ha. Facebook is so desperate for new users and content that they are ready to generate it with AI agents talking to users.

This is going to be a great train wreck. Assume your seats kids and watch.

[ffhhj]

"Hey kiiids, it's me Facey!"

[Naomarik]

"AI agents for billions of people" doesn't sound sinister at all if you're a robot.

[brucethemoose2]

In before they change the top corporate entity to "Llama" (which owns Meta).

Facebook will become an infinitely recursive corporation.

[TaylorAlexander]

A metacorporation, if you will.

[xyzzy4747]

They should change their stock ticker and company name to "GPT" quickly before it gets trademarked.

[rcme]

Oh no. It’s his chatbot vision all over again.

[throwawa14223]

The current crop of 'AI' are refined chatbots so it is no surprise he's back to this.

[smt88]

This sounds incredibly dystopian.

[bb88]

What happened to the Metaverse?

[charcircuit]

From today's earning's call.

    Now beyond AI, the other major technology wave that we're focused on is the metaverse. A narrative has developed that we're somehow moving away from focusing on the Metaverse vision. So I just want to say upfront that, that's not accurate. We've been focusing on both AI and the Metaverse for years now, and we will continue to focus on both. The two areas are also related. Breakthrough in computer vision was what enabled us to ship the first stand-alone VR device.

[esyir]

Honestly, at the rate this goes, I might get my .hack dream yet.

[ramb00]

Comments are filled with snark. But I see 30% of the threads on this board being about AI lately. Facebook is a hugely powerful entity. Aren’t there some important discussions to be had about how these giant corporations choose to intermediate their empires with this new revolutionary tech? Cmon guys.

[i13e]

Related: https://www.businessinsider.com/mark-zuckerberg-obsessed-wit...

[neotrope]

My grandma will be thrilled.

[gloyoyo]

Entities, gollems, and AI Agents...

Pretty neat but, treat them nicely...

[pylua]

If I were mark I would also be concerned with how to separate human views and clicks of ads versus an enlightened so robot.

[gsatic]

Tax the advertisers by traffic volume ie spam.

But that's for govt to do.

There is no cost right now to keeping spamming ppl and constant incentive to collect data to provide better attention thieving services.

[tomjen3]

As if Facebook isn't dystopic enough.

We don't need AIs. We need somebody to bad commercials for shitty stuff.

[CatWChainsaw]

Billions of people... well I won't be one of them.

[coding123]

Why have legs when you can have ai

[coffeebeqn]

Another company rename coming? Last fad didn’t really work out

[jfoster]

Last time was a fad because they Met AI.