Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO(wsj.com)
42 points by samaysharma 16 hours ago | 52 comments
- mwkaufma 16 hours agoWhen your whole job is "giving notes", being flattered, and imagining your workers as cogs, prompting a chatbot probably does feel like "work."[-]
- tamimio 12 hours agoAnd lobbying to implement age verification.[-]
- janderson215 11 hours agoAssuming age verification should be implemented, do you think the application layer is the right place to do that, or would the OS layer make more sense?[-]
- CamperBob2 11 hours agoThe parental layer is the right place to do that.[-]
- kelseyfrog 9 hours agoThat's great. Any serious proposals?[-]
- CamperBob2 8 hours agoI wouldn't tell you how to parent your children, and all I ask is the same consideration in return.[-]
- kelseyfrog 8 hours agoI just see it as an unnecessary hill to die on. Its not possible to win on those conditions so why spend energy on a failed outcome? I wish those who shared the sentiment found an effective method to achieve their goals, but online message board activism doesn't pass the sniff test.
To me it's a public health issue and shares the same, "you can do what you want, but I will not be forced into participating," that resulted in the invention of chin diapers. To an outsider both look like pathological demand avoidance[1].
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathological_demand_avoidance
[-]- janderson215 2 hours agoIt seems like the example you give points to undesirable consequences as a direct result of government intervention. Is your example meant to be a point against any sort of legislation regarding age verification?
- DANmode 5 hours agoSo what’s your suggestion?
Surely you don’t support ID gating the Internet?
[-]- kelseyfrog 3 hours agoHow old are you?
- mmooss 2 hours agoIt's a general principle but too simplistic to contribute to a solution.
I believe I should prevent you from starving, willfully or negligently harming (in a serious way), or denying significant education or medical care to your childern; I believe you shouldn't be able to take your children into some adult places like strip clubs.
The strip clubs also have an obligation to keep out your children and need a method to do so, in this case the online 'strip clubs'.
The question is, given other priorities such as privacy, what is the best method? I think it's parental tools in OSes, including the ability to setup accounts for minors.
- sudoshred 13 hours agoYou missed the killer feature, even more diffusion of responsibility.
- sph 26 minutes agoI wish the new co-CEO convinces him AI-psychosis-style that Meta really, really needs to go back to focusing on the metaverse.
Looking forward to the announcement.
- Garlef 40 minutes agoBut: Will it also let him win at Settlers of Catan?
- phs318u 2 hours agoGiven the history of ordinary employees getting fired for secretly using AI to do some/most of their job, can we at least expect that the shareholders will renegotiate Zuck's compensation significantly downwards? Given he won't actually be CEO-ing so much?
https://www.businessinsider.com/young-lawyer-fired-using-cha...
- rooftopzen 7 hours agoHypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).
- ecshafer 14 hours agoShould I spend $70B on something no one wants?
See what the AI says.
[-]- paradox460 5 hours agopulls string out of conch shell
"Try asking again later"
- tinfoilcondom 15 hours agoNow AI can be just like Zuck and come up with 0 original ideas that have any value.
Facebook copied MySpace and bought Instagram (with FB Camera losing to them).
Their only original idea was Metaverse - an FoA (flop-on-arrival).
They even dropped the ball on AI, something they should have had a massive advantage at with their ad profiles and social media empire.
[-]- cmdrk 11 hours ago> Their only original idea was Metaverse
surely you must be joking.
- garbawarb 15 hours agoCan you name some companies whose products are built on original ideas?[-]
- butlike 15 hours agoTo be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the wheel, which I believe is an original idea[-]
- sunrunner 11 hours agoI'm not so sure, their 'original' wheel was just a refinement to the round boulders that already existed on the planet and the mechanical advantages naturally existing in that form.
- bko 14 hours ago> Build one of most valuable companies in history and grow to be one of youngest billionaires
> tinfoilcondom (account created 5 min ago): dude has no talent or original ideas
I love this platform
[-]- mandeepj 13 hours ago> grow to be one of youngest billionaires
Are you equating intelligence with networth? :-)
I think it's more like this https://www.amazon.com/Accidental-Billionaires-Founding-Face...
[-]- bko 8 hours agoI'm going to go out on a limb and say you have to be above average intelligence to start a business and become a billionaire from it
- 0xy 12 hours agoIQ is highly correlated with both income and wealth so it seems like a fair comment. Of course not all billionaires have a high IQ, but far more billionaires do than your average person.[-]
- tptacek 9 hours agoNot in the way you're implying. There's an IQ threshold that correlates somewhat with income, but correlated gains drop (kind of vanish) after it, and that threshold is pretty low; it might be 100.[-]
- 0xy 8 hours agoNothing you just said disproves anything I claimed. Billionaires tend to have significantly higher IQ than average. The same is true for high income people.[-]
- tptacek 7 hours agoI think it is in fact not the case that high income people generally have significantly higher IQ than average. As for billionaires: when was the last billionaire IQ survey done?[-]
- 0xy 7 hours agohttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01602...
[-]- tptacek 7 hours agoFunny, neither of these decades-old papers includes citations to the billionaire IQ survey you're quoting. :)
- Natfan 10 hours agosurvivorship bias.
there is absolutely nothing stopping a poor child in sierra leone from becoming the next einstein, outside of access to things that should be considered mandatory for human life.
[-]- 0xy 7 hours agoBlank slate theory has been thoroughly discredited so many times I'm not sure why I'm even responding, but this is complete nonsense. If you're born with 62 IQ like the average Sierra Leone citizen, no amount of education will get you to 120. It's literally not possible.
According to research, a full education can add ~15 IQ points.
So someone from Sierra Leone who's average and receives a full education can expect to have around 77 IQ, which means severe issues with reading comprehension, math beyond simple arithmetic and following multi-step instructions.
[-]- Natfan 5 hours agoso geographical region of birth dictates intelligence? how intriguing.
i would like to know if that child was fed well, provided with shelter and given a good education -- would it still be, in your words, "not possible" for them to break even 100IQ?
- myguysi 11 hours agoOh that’s what they mean by “subagents”, now I get it.
- dude250711 15 hours agoLiterally any modern LLM + Kagi Translate to LinkedIn would immediately get you to above average CEO level.
His courage to go the remaining way is commendable.
- seydor 15 hours agoNow that's a project that i support, after the fiasco of metaverse.
If there could be a CEO-as-AI-service , we will not have to put up with all their BS content .
[-]- scotty79 15 hours agoI think models from one year ago with proper harness should be easily beating humans at this task on average. Human CEOs decisions are worse than random chance.
- instig007 10 hours agoHe had better spend $250k worth of tokens on it
- bitwize 10 hours agoYou know what? Good. Any one-shotted CEO who thinks this is the future and we MUST adopt it or else, should be first in line. Before anyone else in the org.
- Lapsa 10 hours agohe should try installing movie maker
- metalman 12 hours agomaybe someone can hack his AI and get it to sweet talk him into the nessesity of "joining" his other AI self in order to become god
- bediger4000 11 hours agoWhat happens when Zuck has spent 3 months in deep conversation, deep deep mental communion, with his "AI" and returns from the metaphorical mountain top with a new holy book, the kind that we've seen folks link to several times. Instant new cult?
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- therealdkz 9 hours ago[dead]
- rchaud 14 hours agoSources familiar with the matter told the WSJ that unlike Horizon Worlds, this idea has legs. /s
- codegodnvn 16 hours agoHAHA