After AI setbacks, Meta bets billions on undefined “superintelligence”
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Summary
Meta Platforms Inc., the company formerly known as Facebook, has announced plans to create a new AI lab focusing on superintelligence, appointing Alexandr Wang, CEO of AI start-up Scale AI, to lead the unit.
The company is reorganising its AI efforts, with the new lab focusing on AI that exceeds human cognitive abilities, also known as superintelligence.
While the term is nebulous and poorly understood, computers are already capable of outperforming humans in certain tasks such as calculations, but this is not considered superintelligence by most definitions.
Many experts believe agreements on comparisons of human and machine intelligence are unlikely to be reached, but men in positions of power and influence will continue to make optimistic claims about AGI and superintelligence developments.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg believes the company’s focus on metaverse technology and virtual reality will also significantly benefit from advances in super-intelligent systems.
