Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email

Big public AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have become near ubiquitous over the past few years – but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is banking that before long, everyone will have at least one, if not more, personalized AI assistants to call their own. Onstage at SIGGRAPH in Denver, Colorado, on Monday, Zuckerberg and …

[Eclectic Man]

Definitely NOT a 'twonky'

No, not at all:

"Tweedy college professor discovers his new TV set is animate, apparently possessed by something from the future, and militantly intent on regulating his daily life."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046475/

[Andy Non]

personalized AI assistants for all

Nope, no thanks, would rather not, no siree. Not for me. Take it away, begone.

[Eclectic Man]

Re: personalized AI assistants for all

Aww, big manufacturers just love it when you play hard to get.

[Throatwarbler Mangrove]

Re: personalized AI assistants for all

Counterpoint: you can instruct your AI assistant to tell people you don't like to fuck off and then just blame the AI's programming.

[EricM]

Re: personalized AI assistants for all

"like mail" ... got me thinking.

Maybe a personal AI assitant reading all my corporate mails and summarizing them as "just the usual BS today" or attending 4 hrs of listen-only Teams calls while creating a summary of the interesting 30 seconds would be a _real_ productivity gain after all :)

[Steve Davies 3]

Re: 4 hrs of listen-only Teams calls

but.... the AI assistant would edit the contents to what it thinks you want to hear not what actually went on.

Good luck with keeping that job after you get it all wrong.

[Michael Wojcik]

Re: personalized AI assistants for all

Which do you dislike, the hallucinations, the learned helplessness, or the intellectual laziness of using the damned things?

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Mark

No.

Just no.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Dear Mark

We have known each other for nearly 20 years and it wasn't even love on first sight. I don't think I ever loved you Facebook. For a bit, when my Mum died, you were very useful in 2011.

But you whored yourself. And now you come back with 'lipstick-on-a-pig' spill and expect me to believe you have chan... Oh. PyTorch is nice. Motion capture too. Um...

No. Not quite yet Mark, but you are looking great. Love your hair and that Top G (Tate can only dream) chain.

Llama is a peach BTW. I think having a kid has matured you. And lets not forget how much coin you have, so

[Anonymous Coward]

nice heads up

Watched the vid. Mark looking good and much more confident. You can imagine working for him now whereas when he started the meta stuff he was still Facebook/Insta shaved-head droid.

For those that think It redemption isn't possible, at least a step in that direction, take note of the videos content.

Meta have spent big. really really big on AI for at least 5 years now. We have used many of their pieces of work within our models. They are excellent at vision and motion to name but one thing.

The moral aspects of this are worth looking at and stopping Facebook 2. Chances are better this time around.

His vision is all apps become AI. No Insta/Facebook. That 20th Century concept of contained apps is dying. One ring ...

"personalized AI assistants for all " is right but not complete. AI will generate everything just for you or just for someone else - whatever you want. It will be freeing.

[Ace2]

Re: nice heads up

Barf.

[Anonymous Coward]

Barf

Bang bang.

Quite a video of two giants of tech - love or hate them.

I don't agree with all of it. Zucker is wrong when he uses Apple as a dominant force in mobile - it was for a few years but not now... no way. Android is way ahead and if it was not Google it wd be my choice.

https://youtu.be/w-cmMcMZoZ4?si=rYlMBWtYYr7M5_sW&t=1958

is of interest in understanding hoe much Llama is used and how they fine tune models for tasks.

HTH, returd

[Anonymous Coward]

Ah yes

Zuckfart owned 'personal assistants' for everyone. Welcome to having that little episode with a couch in your basement made public.

It will be a slurp fest.

Anyone stupid enough to sign up for this can say goodbye to what little privacy you have left.

See that 10,000,0000 ft bargepole in my hand? That's as close as I want to get to this stinking pile of fox feces.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Ah yes

Ah yes you are nearly absolutely correct. Not all will this affect but there wont be a sign-up process. u r already 'signed-up'

Two choices:

1. Moan, bitch, shiver and die

2. Learn as much as u can about it and attempt some form of mastery

What's it gonna be boy/girl/prefer_not_to_say/non_binary/French?

[Howard Sway]

Zuckerberg also suggested that customers might talk to their AI self using AR glasses

Yeah, great idea, that's really how most of the planet's population are going to want to spend their time...

Which reminds me : how is that Metaverse thing going? Anyone using it? Or are you attempting to silently move on from that shit failed idea by coming up with a new shit idea that's going to fail?

[Ian Johnston]

Re: Zuckerberg also suggested that customers might talk to their AI self using AR glasses

All paid for with Libre currency. No, hang on, that's another shit idea that failed.

[PB90210]

Imagine the morning when you wake up after a heavy night with a hangover and no memory of buying those 57 gross of substandard inflatable flamingos!

Now imagine you are stone cold sober and discover it was your AI assistant that ordered them for you...

[MonkeyJuice]

Sorry I'm late, my glasses have a drinking problem.

[Bebu]

57 gross of substandard inflatable flamingos!

A couple of dozen that's just tat. 8000+ now that is installation art.

Have your miscreant assistant flog them as such to the gullible collectors of such artefacts.

It might also arrange to redirect the delivery to the lucky purchasing conoisseur so that this pink nightmare never darkens your doorstep.

Do people still use "gross" for anything other than as a synonym for disgusting?

[Anonymous Coward]

Even more insidious than Orwell’s Telescreen

No, I won’t sell my privacy.

No, I won’t give others access to my personal thoughts

No.

I’d even consider the B Ark at this stage…

[lglethal]

"A world in which custom AI agents – trained to mimic your personality or brand –... interact with customers on their behalf long after they've signed off for the day."

More like after the Service Agent has trained up the AI Agent, then the Service Agent is out the door and out of a job. The only people who could possibly want this are upper management, who view people as disposable commodities and cost centres to be "reduced" whenever possible. Whilst maintaining THEIR privacy of course... No AI's allowed within the gated communities they live in of course...

[Bebu]

Barrel of Monkeys

If these digital twins were to become universal on FB etc I could foresee millions of these agents furiously liking, following, defriending (whatever) each other, and possibly engaging in autonomous flame wars with each other.

Meanwhile the humans toddle off to the pub for a probably equally pointless full and frank exchange of opinions.

On the plus side it might toll the passing of the insidious influencer creatures that infest these sides. Advertisers would likely just commission a replacement digital version.

Max Headroom was a harbinger.:)

[nonoj]

This advice goes a ways back: If you want to keep something private don't put it online.

I know that certain businesses (ex. healthcare, investment, government) require truthful personal information. But for other organizations, social media in particular, there is the option of not providing it.

If I someday receive a solicitation targeting a 24 year old descendant of the Inca Empire living in Botswana with a degree in lead typesetting and making €100,001 a year, you won't be able to wipe the smile off my face.

[nonoj]

PS: For some reason I foresee AI being used to obfuscate AI. Now THAT could be interesting...

[osxtra]

Been There, Done That

One of my favorite skiffy novels is John Varley's 1992 novel "Steel Beach", itself an homage to Robert Heinlein's great "The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress" from 1966.

Both deal with the idea of a non-human intellegence managing needed resources.

In Heinlein's case, the question was "what makes a person", with "Mike" running all the needed infrastructure on the moon, self-aware, but everyone treating him as "just a machine".

In Varley's case, he had the "Central Computer" - also on the moon, providing the same sort of infrastructure - personalizing its interface to every user.

Unfortunately, all that personalization - building a personality to speak to each differnt user - kinda made it go crazy.

It'll be awhile before we've built something as sophisticated as Data, or Mike. Current AI feels more like Central Computer.

Once this genie gets let out of the bottle, we'll be living with Lor for awhile before we grow up enough to build something better.

[Michael Wojcik]

Is he, now?

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is banking that before long, everyone will have at least one, if not more, personalized AI assistants to call their own.

"Banking", eh? Does that mean that if we tell him to Zuck off, as pretty much the entire world did with metaverse and Libre and many seem to be doing with Facebook, then he'll actually lose money? That'd be great.

As usual, Zuckerberg seems to be utterly incapable of understanding that other people might not be like him.

[Cmdr Bugbear]

AI assistants are not intended for you

I'll drop this here (admittedly comments by an astrophysicist, and not an IT professional, but I think she makes some good points).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKmAg4S2KeE

Who is hosting the AI chatbot that will go to meetings for you?

If the company you work for is paying for an AI bot that represents you, then what do they need you for?

[PB90210]

Re: AI assistants are not intended for you

Have your AI call my AI while we do lunch

[The Sprocket]

No. I'll have no participation in A.I. I can foresee the day when those 'brainiacs' at Apple 2.0 decide we need a healthy dose of A.I. in our operating system. FFS.