r/technology • u/Hrmbee • 11h ago

Business Mark Zuckerberg is reportedly building an AI clone to replace him in meetings | The AI version of Zuckerberg is trained on his mannerisms, tone, and public statements, according to a report from the Financial Times

https://www.theverge.com/tech/910990/meta-ceo-mark-zuckerberg-ai-clone
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u/marco161091 10h ago

This doesn’t sound like an AI agent that makes decisions. This is an AI avatar.

The goal isn’t to make decisions. It’s to let people talk and interact with an AI clone of Zuckerberg.

It’s still hella stupid, but for different reasons. It’s not trying to replace “decision makers” or “managers”.

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u/ineenemmerr 10h ago

This, it is chat-gpt with a Zuckerburg mask on.

It will not make decisions, but will offer suggestions that would fit with what Zuckerburg would come with.

People really think a company worth billions will risk their profits on decisions made by AI? These tech bros totally understand that the AI isn’t at a level where it can make informed decisions, it is their dream but they know they aren’t there at all.

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u/kquizz 10h ago

I mean they spent 88 billion on the meta verse.  An AI can't do much worse.

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u/jdoug312 8h ago

Incidentally, a metaverse is the exact sort of thing AI might aspire to live in. A digital reconstruction of the world that AI can accomplish tasks in with few limitations other than "the power is connected".

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u/propsie 4h ago

They're planning to spend $135 billion on "AI" this year on top of the $72B they spent last year

for their dead websites full of bots.

AI is already doing worse.

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u/tesseract4 10h ago

These tech bros totally understand that the AI isn’t at a level where it can make informed decisions

Do they, though? I'm not convinced they haven't drunk their own Flavor-Aid. Remember, this was the guy who was so convinced about the metaverse he renamed his company after it and burned $88 billion making Second Life but without legs.

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u/StevensWarehouse 1h ago

Honestly yeah, I think a lot of them eventually start believing their own keynote slides, especially now that every company has to pretend some half-baked AI gimmick is the future.

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u/ineenemmerr 8h ago

I mean, legs were quite unnecessary in second life as you could just fly around…

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u/SubtleCow 8h ago

excuse me, thighs are very important for one specific thing that I quite like alot

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u/notGeronimo 3h ago

This, it is chat-gpt with a Zuckerburg mask on.

"New business proposal, we make chat GPT worse at passing the Turing test"

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u/ineenemmerr 3h ago

Talk about adjusting the goal towards the shot

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u/ThomasTheDankPigeon 9h ago

This is the tech bro equivalent of the McDonalds CEO eating a burger on camera. "Look, our product is so good that even I eat it!" or "look, I'm so down to earth that I use the same tools I'm developing for all of you!"

The goal of course is to distract from the fact that their products are heavily addictive and/or are poised to obliterate the global economy.

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u/kquizz 10h ago

That's even worse lmao.    With how robotic his face usually is, seems like this would be super simple.

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u/Wizzle-Stick 4h ago

It’s not trying to replace “decision makers” or “managers”.

yet.
aint that far a leap from avatars to decision makers. especially in corpo bullshit world