Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God'

I continue to find Mark impressive. I think there's something quite true about the "trying to create God" remark.

This is not what he said:

> Zuckerberg took a moment to disparage the efforts of unnamed competitors who he sees as less than open, adding that they seem to think they’re “creating God.”

> “It’s almost as if they kind of think they’re creating God or something and … it’s just — that’s not what we’re doing,”

Small but important nuance. The title makes it seem like they Zuck is saying AI is God, while what he actually said is dismissing AI as a god.

We are getting closer and closer to several anime timelines.

The analytics and insights they'll generate alone, citing most of these Ai tools are harvesting based on Google accounts, will be staggering in hindsight. By using Ai tools, so many people are surrendering volumes of data that are so much more invasive than Social Media ever could be. As Chat GPT gets integrated into many services, they'll be enabled to build a far deeper profile on everyone that registers, and even a lot of data on people that don't register on the service.

I think we need to establish prominent technical leadership/chief advisor positions within the White House and each chamber of Congress now to be able to establish ethical baselines and oversight before tech managed by private companies turns even more predatory upon public data (Similar to The Surgeon General's Role in authority perhaps)... There should already be solid ground rules for operation and oversight of Ai development efforts in place to control the egos of the people that will have access to all of this user data, those types almost always exhibit God complexes without any real accountability nor responsibility, because most of the people that legislate have no clue of what they can see on the backend.

For example alone, if we though insider training was bad, just imagine how toxic it's going to get when Ai development employees, or a product owner has access to every aspect of social, economic, and business moves of every single company and individual that uses tools integrated across Chat GPT and similar services, including Email and MS Office (without anyone really knowing their data is easily accessible)... It's not a bright future for fairness and equity at all, and there will be far more oligarchs and monopolies than there are now.

I would agree. AI is the machine god realized. Not by virtue of its capabilities, but by the agency people hand off to it. Whether it be creative tasks or just planning their activities, I see more people rely on AI for more decisions. They don’t want to think about something, so they have an AI choose for them. One could argue Top 10 lists and Guides already did this, but for those it was limited to certain aspects and tailored by a human. People are so afraid of making the wrong choice, they would rather not make one at all. LLMs in particular are ready and eager to make a choice for you about almost anything.

The only thing the AI bubble is creating are fantastic returns for the nVidia stockholders. The rest is hot air.

> unnamed competitors who he sees as less than open

Real subtle lol

I’m glad Anthropic is having success with their latest model. So it is at a minimum a two horse race

see, this guy gets it

Because Zuck's AI is so open