Since more than 3 billion people use Meta’s various platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, or WhatsUp, the obvious question is what they will do in the accelerating AI race. Lex Fridman made a podcast with Mark Zuckerberg, and they touched on this question and clarified how Meta board thinking on the future AI, and what kind of integration they will introduce in the near future. If you’re interested, you can listen to the full podcast here.
The managing director of Meta thinks a little differently about what kind of AI assistant and agent will be needed in the future. According to him, current developments such as ChatGPT, Bing, or Bard are built as a very complex singular system. People probably want more different specialized applications, and it is probably also in the interest of the developers that the AI with which the users interact can provide the best support in relation to their own products. The focus of innovation should be on empowering individuals to easily create their own AI that caters to their specific requirements.
They plan to integrate several simple AI solutions in the meta platforms, which will help users in image and media generation and editing. For example, if you want to share a picture on Instagram or Facebook, you want to be sure that the picture looks as good as possible, and artificial intelligence can help you with this.
A new innovation aims to tackle the advertising industry by transforming neutral language into promotional material that can effectively advertise products or services. This solution helps convert expectations and goals into almost ready-to-use ads. While A-B testing has been around for quite some time, AI can lend a hand by providing new and innovative ideas and even generating alternative options. These can then be compared and evaluated to determine which one works best.
Due to demographic trends and effects, some surveys already show that the average person has fewer close friends today than it was 15 years ago. With such a central idea, it makes sense to develop assistants who, for example, remember your friends’ birthdays and give suggestions on how you could celebrate them. A social assistant monitors what your friends are doing and helps you connect with them, and helps you be a better friend to them. In addition to these, it is possible to imagine an AI acting as a mentor or life coach that can help with suggestions, or as a cheerleader that helps pick you up and motivates you in the event of various challenges.
There are also serious opportunities in the field of education, because, with the help of AI, people can get the answers to their questions much sooner and, moreover:
It will be extremely patient, it’s never gonna get annoyed…
Mark Zuckerbert at Lex Fridman podcast on 9th Jun 2023.
Such a solution can also help a lot in the interaction between people because it provides an opportunity to communicate with each other in the most effective way and to improve the use of words or the tone of the text.
They also talked about several other topics in the podcast, such as Censorship, AI risks, AGI timeline and many other interesting issues, so I recommend listening to the entire broadcast on the above link.
