‘Very scary’: Mark Zuckerberg’s pledge to build advanced AI alarms experts
The Guardian
Facebook and Instagram post and an interview with The Verge (the Guardian does not say which carried this sentence)
“This technology is so important and the opportunities are so great that we should open source and make it as widely available as we responsibly can, so everyone can benefit”
Mark Zuckerberg18 January 2024- What you'll lose0/5
Nothing taken.
- Condescension1/5
Open, 'as responsibly' as he decides.
- Tone-deafness2/5
Announced with 350,000 H100s on order.
- Doom3/5
Experts called open-sourcing general intelligence 'very scary'.
- Hypocrisy0/5
Not yet; see 2025.
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The occasion
Facebook and Instagram post and an interview with The Verge (the Guardian does not say which carried this sentence), 18 January 2024.
Context
Zuckerberg announced that Meta would build general intelligence and said he would lean toward open sourcing it; Futurism notes the same post announced a planned purchase of 350,000 Nvidia H100 chips. The Guardian dates its article 19 Jan 2024 and says his Verge interview was on "Thursday" (18 Jan); the post date is inferred from that, and the original post was not readable.
Crowd reaction
Critical commentary
Dame Wendy Hall, a UN AI advisory body member, told the Guardian the prospect of open source AGI was "really very scary" and "so irresponsible for a company to suggest it"; Andrew Rogoyski of the University of Surrey said such decisions "need to be taken by international consensus, not in the boardroom of a tech giant". Futurism headlined "Experts Terrified".