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Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO

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45 points by samaysharma 17 days ago · 60 comments

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mwkaufma 17 days ago

When your whole job is "giving notes", being flattered, and imagining your workers as cogs, prompting a chatbot probably does feel like "work."

  • tamimio 17 days ago

    And lobbying to implement age verification.

    • janderson215 17 days ago

      Assuming 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 17 days ago

        The parental layer is the right place to do that.

        • kelseyfrog 17 days ago

          That's great. Any serious proposals?

          • CamperBob2 17 days ago

            I wouldn't tell you how to parent your children, and all I ask is the same consideration in return.

            • kelseyfrog 17 days ago

              I 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 17 days ago

                It 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 17 days ago

                So what’s your suggestion?

                Surely you don’t support ID gating the Internet?

            • mmooss 17 days ago

              It'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 17 days ago

    You missed the killer feature, even more diffusion of responsibility.

stevenalowe 17 days ago

He needs one to help with ethics, not administration

  • mmooss 17 days ago

    Not a bad idea for anyone, if we could find on LLM with reliable and sophistaced ethical output.

    How about a Gadfly LLM, 'Socretes'. An 'evil demon' LLM called Descartes?

  • follie 17 days ago

    If Asimov designed it he wouldn't be that interested.

dude250711 17 days ago

Literally 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.

tinfoilcondom 17 days ago

Now 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 17 days ago

    > Their only original idea was Metaverse

    surely you must be joking.

  • garbawarb 17 days ago

    Can you name some companies whose products are built on original ideas?

    • butlike 17 days ago

      To be fair, General Motors is built off of the idea of the wheel, which I believe is an original idea

      • sunrunner 17 days ago

        I'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.

      • dessimus 17 days ago

        By that logic, the Taggart Baking Co. should have been one of the richest companies ever, since everyone compares their product to it as the greatest thing since.

  • bko 17 days 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 17 days 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...

      • 0xy 17 days ago

        IQ 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 17 days ago

          Not 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.

        • Natfan 17 days ago

          survivorship 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 17 days ago

            Blank 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 17 days ago

              so 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?

              • 0xy 16 days ago

                I didn't claim that, this appears to be a strawman. I specifically stated average IQ, and yes, necessarily your region of birth does inform your average IQ.

                Environmental and educational impacts on IQ are very minimal. Someone with an average Sierra Leone IQ is not becoming a genius after world-class education and the best environment possible. They'll be measurably improved, but not by 50 IQ points.

                • tptacek 16 days ago

                  your region of birth does inform your average IQ.

                  I doubt you can demonstrate this empirically, because there is no such thing as a regional survey of average IQ.

      • bko 17 days ago

        I'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

Cheyana 17 days ago

ChatGPT, how do I appear more human?

pbjhsu 16 days ago

The CEO use case probably has a similar boundary somewhere. Agent handles scheduling and summarization, but should it decide who gets promoted?

bitwize 17 days ago

You 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.

sph 17 days ago

I 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.

ecshafer 17 days ago

Should I spend $70B on something no one wants?

See what the AI says.

instig007 17 days ago

He had better spend $250k worth of tokens on it

rooftopzen 17 days ago

Hypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).

seydor 17 days ago

Now 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 17 days ago

    I 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.

myguysi 17 days ago

Oh that’s what they mean by “subagents”, now I get it.

Garlef 17 days ago

But: Will it also let him win at Settlers of Catan?

metalman 17 days ago

maybe 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

phs318u 17 days ago

Given 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...

bediger4000 17 days ago

What 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?

Lapsa 17 days ago

he should try installing movie maker

rchaud 17 days ago

Sources familiar with the matter told the WSJ that unlike Horizon Worlds, this idea has legs. /s

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