Meta has been quietly progressing in AI research. It was notably excluded from a recent high-profile White House summit on AI. But in fact Zuckerberg has been increasingly vocal about Meta's AI plans (he mentioned "AI" at least 27 times during the last earnings call). He has detailed plans on how to integrate the technology more deeply into Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and other apps. AI has already been used for years to recommend posts in users' feeds, moderate content, target ads, etc. and he now wants to expand its abilities to generative AI, as well as chatbots.
There's been talk of a "semiautomated social network" where AI can create its own posts, or even entire accounts. However, this will obviously raise concerns around the spread of misinformation, bias, polarising content, and so on.
Meta has been slow to secure the kind of chips needed to scale AI projects, putting it at a competitive disadvantage. But the company has made some exciting announcements in recent weeks that could make it a rival to Google and OpenAI, perhaps sooner than we think. So in this thread, we can follow all the latest news and developments.
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