Mark Zuckerberg says ‘developing superintelligence is now in sight,’ shades OpenAI and other firms focused on automating work

After hiring away numerous top AI researchers from the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Apple and dangling multi-hundred million-dollar (or in one case, reportedly a billion-dollar) pay packages in a recruitment spree that’s shaken the tech industry, Meta co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is sharing more about his vision for “superintelligence.”

In a new plain text note posted on the web today (full text below), Zuck writes: “Over the last few months we have begun to see glimpses of our AI systems improving themselves. The improvement is slow for now, but undeniable. Developing superintelligence is now in sight.”

He goes on to share more about his and Meta’s vision for superintelligence and how personalized it should be — in keeping with Meta’s entire fleet of products such as Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, and its AR glasses and VR headsets, which all allow the ...