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

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

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post #11

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

From a cynical atheist point of view he's not wrong: - god is an imaginary construct used to rationalize data points - god is often used by humans to make decisions, whether backed or not by data - god is overhyped substitute "god" with "AI"

Except that if you go beyond the title and read the actual quote, it's not what he said.

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

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post #19

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…

This doesn't appear to be what Zuckerberg was meaning. He was saying in the interview that he thought that closed-source AI companies were trying to create a singular AI that would be like the God AI, which would be superior to all other competing AIs, not that some users rely so much on AI now that it is like a personal god.

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

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post #19

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…

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

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post #19

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…

> LLMs in particular are ready and eager to make a choice for you about almost anything.

Wat. They're still just highly advanced auto-correct, and aren't eager to do anything. Sure some users might be eager to delegate the decision to them...

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