Expressing his views on the future of AI, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview published Thursday that he deeply believes there will never be “just one AI.” Extolling the value of open source in putting AI tools in the hands of many, Zuckerberg also briefly decried the efforts of unnamed competitors he sees as less open, saying he thinks they are “creating gods.”
“I don’t think AI technology is something that should be collected and stored away and … that one company can use to build any central, single product,” Zuckerberg said in a new article. Youtube interview with Ken Sutter (@kallaway).
He added, “I find it very shocking when people in the tech industry … talk about building this ‘one true AI.'” “It’s almost as if they think they’re creating God or something and … it’s just — we’re not doing that,” he said. “I don’t think it works that way.”
“I understand that if you’re in an AI lab … you want to feel like what you’re doing is very important, right? … It’s like, ‘We’re building a true thing for the future.’ But I think, like, realistically, things don’t work that way, do they?” Zuckerberg explained. “It’s not like there was an app on people’s phones that people use. There’s no one creator that people want all their content from. There’s no one business that people want to buy everything from.”
In the conversation, Zuckerberg said that many different AIs need to be created to reflect the different interests of people. The company also said on Thursday that Announced early trials of its AI Studio software In the US, it will allow creators and others to create AI avatars that will be able to reach out to people through Instagram’s messaging system. The AIs will be able to answer questions from their followers and chat with people in a fun way, but they will be labeled as “AI” to avoid confusion.
Referring to companies that build closed AI platforms, Meta’s CEO said he doesn’t believe this is the way to create the best experiences for people.
“You want more people to try different things and set them free,” he added. “I mean, that’s what culture is about, isn’t it? It’s not like one group of people decides everything for people.”
His comments sound a bit like sour grapes, as they come on the heels of reports that Meta had tried to negotiate with Apple to integrate its AI into Apple’s operating system, rather than working solely with OpenAI at launch. but was shotAccording to Bloomberg, Apple decided not to pursue formal discussions with Meta because it did not believe its privacy practices were strong enough.
Without a deal, Meta will lose access to potentially billions of iPhone users worldwide. But it seems Meta has a plan B to build technology that extends beyond smartphones.
In the interview, Zuckerberg touched on the company’s progress with the Ray-Ban Meta smartglasses, for example, saying its path will one day intersect with the work being done on full holographic displays. However, the former will have greater appeal in the near future, he said.
“I think you can create a great experience with the capabilities of the cameras, microphones, speakers, and multimodal AI, even before there’s any kind of display on these glasses,” he said. Plus, not having a display keeps costs down. For comparison, Meta’s smartglasses cost about $300, and the Meta Quest Pro costs $1,000.
Zuckerberg said there will be three different products before convergence: display-less smartglasses, a heads-up type of display and a full holographic display. Eventually, he said, instead of a neural interface connected to their brain, people could one day wear a wristband that receives signals from the brain while communicating with their hand. This would allow them to communicate with the neural interface by moving their hand slightly. Over time, it could also allow people to type.
Zuckerberg cautioned that these kinds of inputs and AI experiences won’t immediately replace smartphones. “I don’t think in the history of technology, the new platform — usually what it does is not completely make people stop using the old thing. It’s just that you use it less,” he said.
For example, people now use smartphones to do tasks that they would do on their computers 10 to 15 years ago.
“I think the same thing will happen with glasses,” he said. “It’s not that we’re going to stop having phones. It’s just that it’s going to be in your pocket and you’ll take it out when you really need it. But I think more people will just start saying, ‘Hey, I can take this photo with my glasses. I can ask AI this question or send someone a message — it’s much easier with glasses,'” Zuckerberg said.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if we’ll still have phones 10 years from now, but they will probably be used more deliberately, rather than just being randomly picked up for some technical task,” he said.
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