In the highly competitive field of AI development, Mark Zuckerberg believes he needs an edge. So the Meta CEO is recruiting 50 people to join what he calls the company’s “superintelligence group.”
The team will be tasked with developing artificial general intelligence, or AGI.
Tech expert Omar Gallaga wrote for CNET about what this all means. He joined the show to discuss.
Highlights from this segment:
– Artificial general intelligence is a future goal for tech companies and would be a kind of AI that is capable of performing any intellectual task that a human could do.
– Meta has been perceived as being behind other tech companies in AI advances, prompting Zuckerberg to want to go beyond even AGI and focusing on superintelligence, or an artificial intelligence that transcends normal human intelligence.
– Along with social and military applications for this technology, Meta is also looking to utilize it for another project of Zuckerberg’s – the Metaverse. This would combine virtual reality and virtual spaces with artificial intelligence.
