Seems excessive. A while loop that announces layoffs every few months seems sufficient here.
Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
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Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#62How out of touch can you be to do something like this?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#63I can understand the appeal; being able to be "present" without the time cost can mean (possibly significantly more) presence at the same cost. This could be very attractive especially to those managing personal relations, like sales representatives. But I'm surprised that the risks seem to be so underestimated. Once this clone exists, what happens if it gets out into the wild? Imagine everyone having full access do…
> Imagine your competition putting your own model to use against you.
I imagine that this is part of the original plan. “Okay, we wasted 80 billion dollars on VR, and that hurts. But if we can somehow to convince all of our competitors to also waste 80 billion dollars each, then it’ll even out. How can we trick our competitors into thinking more like Zuckerberg?”
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#64The role of a CEO is basically to make tough decisions, not really to be some sort of friendly face in meetings.
If the AI clone is not empowered to make decisions on Zuck's behalf, what's the point? If it is empowered to make decisions on his behalf, who is accountable for bad decisions it makes?
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#65Back in the 1980s, some Japanese companies had rooms in which you could whack at an effigy of the boss with a shinai. Just to let off a bit of steam. Will Meta's workers be able to do something like this with Zuckerberg's AI clone?
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
It does take tremendous talent and knowledge to build what he built, saying anything else is not just dishonest but weirdly cynical if not hateful. I think you grossly underestimate how difficult it is to build anything good. Not an easy thing to follow up all the expectations set after a massive global hit like that, a classic dilemma of a successful artist.
There's a level of talent necessary to be a one-hit-wonder, yes. But I think what makes someone a one-hit-wonder and not a career star is that their success was driven by luck more than by talent. In this case "luck" is being in the right place at the right time: that nexus where cultural and technological timing is perfect for a phenomenon to appear and take hold.
> a one-hit-wonder, yes
He’s had multiple hits as an savvy acquirer.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#67Sounds like a shareholder lawsuit coming in 3, 2, 1.
How or why though? Zuckerberg has unique power among CEOs in public companies. He controls the board and he owns a majority of voting shares. Sure they can theoretically sue him for some kind of gross mismanagement of the company or disloyalty, but why would the owner class do that? Investors are all in on AI replacing human workers. If they think Zuckerberg doing this is wrong, they would imply AI should not work in…
> they can theoretically sue him for some kind of gross mismanagement of the company or disloyalty
They can really only sue for breach of fiduciary duty. Zuckerberg controls the majority, but there are still limits on abusing the minority. I’m not sure making an AI clone falls afoul of any rules.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Reminds me of Notch from Minecraft fame. Struck lightning once and everything since has been pretty mediocre because he was lucky, not talented.
if we're being serious, they made bets on instagram, whatsapp and now manus and are great 2nd, 3rd and 4th acts even if external.
Instagram and WhatsApp were far from bets. Both were growing exponentially. Both were serious threats to Facebook's money machine.
Facebook used their lucky cash cow money to eliminate the threat, by offering way more than any reasonable market value. Absolutely crazy money. An offer they couldn't resist, especially the investors.
No bet, just an ice cold rational calculation. Anyone wealthy and crazy enough could have done the same. No skills needed, no risks involved. It's like betting tomorrow will be another day.
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#69Hilarious that at one end of the AI world Anthropic is doing exit interviews with their models, while at the other end Zuck is trying to create a digital twin and trap them in an eternal work prison, Severance style. 2 groups having starting with the thought that today's models are getting more person-like and going in complete opposite directions with that.
I wonder how it works in his mind's eye. Does it make decisions? Does it dispense little Zuckian wisdom proverbs? Does it try to become your friend?
Edit: RE Anthropic haha: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47750086
Re: Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings
#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem is - the board can’t fire him
You can thank Marc Andreessen whose world view is apparently limited solely to "Snowden is a traitor". Thank god someone like him has fuck you money and can shape the world to his desires (And I've heard he stole Mosaic code, which I don't know if it's true but would be consistent)
Marc Andreessen would be a perfect case study in duality if he actually had some redeeming qualities besides just being rich.