Meta Is Creating a New A.I. Lab to Pursue 'Superintelligence'

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/technology/meta-new-ai-lab-superintelligence.html

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jqpabc123•8mo ago

I wonder if this "superintelligence" will be able to convince Zuck that the "metaverse" was just a huge blunder?

rxtexit•8mo ago

I just got a quest 3 a few months ago. The quest 3 itself is amazing but I feel like they already have given up on the "metaverse".

It is pretty shocking how little there is inside Horizon. There isn't even that many people ever using it.

What is most strange to me is the experience on the Quest 3 is absolutely incredible. Whatever they set out to do with the headset, mission accomplished. Most the Horizon Worlds though feel like uninspired weekend projects.

pickleglitch•8mo ago

I've been interested in VR for a good while now but the Quest is the only option that isn't too expensive for me to justify the cost, and I'll be damned if I'm giving Zuchenborg any of my money. So, no VR for me yet.

DoktorDelta•8mo ago

I got a used Quest 2 last year for exactly this reason

throwaway81523•8mo ago

https://ifanyonebuildsit.com/ "If anyone builds it, everyone dies".

clbrmbr•8mo ago

We can reduce p(doom | superintelligence) though safety efforts.

blibble•8mo ago

what incentive does facebook have to make anything other than token efforts re: safety?

"safety" is them paying to slow down their own research

staticman2•8mo ago

What does "safety" mean in this context? Are you asking what incentive Zuckerberg has in not causing the AI apocalypse?

Off the top of my head it would decrease his real estate portfolio value I guess?

blibble•8mo ago

he obviously thinks he can maintain control, else he wouldn't be trying it in the first place

(unless he's one of these must-summon-the-machine-god assholes)

qoez•8mo ago

Safety research is mainly focused on avoiding bad words and introducing political bias. There's no fine tuning that can prevent mass unemployment and similar secondary effects.

clbrmbr•7mo ago

But those fall infinitely short of doom.

xdavidliu•8mo ago

yudkowsky would probably disagree with that statement these days; as I understand, he thinks that short of miracle, these efforts won't amount to much

spot•8mo ago

If anyone posts Yudkowsky, everyone is made stupider.

https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/ZS9GDsBtWJMDEyFXh/...

saubeidl•8mo ago

Saying that while unironically posting "effective" "altruism" is a special kind of funny.

quickthrowman•8mo ago

His finest work is Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.

AndrewKemendo•8mo ago

I’m surprised he’s still around but that book looks exactly like what I’d expect

herewego•8mo ago

https://archive.is/0xzRe

paxys•8mo ago

Yeah, another reorg is sure to fix all your problems. Gotta love big company thinking.

lipowitz•8mo ago

"It can't be any worse than what we have done so far" is a very logical sentiment. The trouble is that they never fully reset the elements that are truly bringing them down while they do reset the elements that are functioning properly because they are mostly outside of management's awareness.

DebtDeflation•8mo ago

Envelope #2 in a game of 3 Envelopes.

aprilthird2021•8mo ago

Why is Alexandr Wang highlighted as a part of this "Super intelligence" effort?

Unless I'm mistaken, doesn't his company just generate data for people to train AI models with using contractors? Meta has enough data (one would imagine). So how is he helpful here? I'm obv missing something but what is it?

psunavy03•8mo ago

Zuck: still flailing around madly after that one profitable idea he had in college.

If he's all in on AI now, does that mean he's going to re-rename Meta to Intel . . . oh, wait.

gmerc•8mo ago

Ah Zuck, having to actually run the Company after Sheryl left and getting a free pass for "The managers hired too many people", "Year of Efficiency", "People Are Lazy" and "People are not masculine enough" discovers the Elon method of just paying to cover up incompetence.

ath3nd•8mo ago

Meta also created some goggles to pursue VR and something called the Metaverse. How is that going?

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