Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent To Help Him Be CEO (the-independent.com) 48
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Wall Street Journal: Mark Zuckerberg wants everyone inside and outside his company to eventually have his or her own personal artificial-intelligence agent. He is starting with himself. Zuckerberg, the chief executive of Meta Platforms, is building a CEO agent to help him do his job (source paywalled; alternative source), according to a person familiar with the project. The agent, which is still in development, is currently helping Zuckerberg get information faster -- for instance, by retrieving answers for him that he would typically have to go through layers of people to get, the person familiar with the project said.
[...] Use of AI tools has spread quickly through the ranks at Meta -- in part because it is now a factor in employees' performance reviews. Meta's internal message board is filled with posts from employees sharing new AI use cases they have found and new tools they have built using AI, according to people familiar with the matter. [...] Employees have started using personal agent tools such as My Claw that have access to their chat logs and work files and can go talk to colleagues -- or their colleagues' own personal agents -- on their behalf, the people said. Another AI tool called Second Brain that is somewhere between a chatbot and an agent is also gaining momentum internally, according to people familiar with the matter. Second Brain was built by a Meta employee on top of Claude and can index and query documents for projects, among other uses. On the internal post announcing it to staff, the employee said it is "meant to be like an AI chief of staff."
There is even a group on the internal messaging board where employees' personal agents talk to each other, some of the people said. (Separately, Meta acquired Moltbook, the social-media site for AI agents, and hired its founders in a deal earlier this month.) Meta also recently acquired Manus, a Singapore-based startup that makes personal agents that can execute tasks for its users, and is using the tool internally, some of the people said. Meta recently established a new applied AI engineering organization that is tasked with using AI to help speed up development of the company's large language models. Those teams will have an ultraflat structure of as many as 50 individual contributors reporting to one manager, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. [...] Employees across the company said they have been encouraged to attend AI tutorial meetings several times a week and frequent AI hackathons, and to create their own AI tools to speed up their work.
[...] Use of AI tools has spread quickly through the ranks at Meta -- in part because it is now a factor in employees' performance reviews. Meta's internal message board is filled with posts from employees sharing new AI use cases they have found and new tools they have built using AI, according to people familiar with the matter. [...] Employees have started using personal agent tools such as My Claw that have access to their chat logs and work files and can go talk to colleagues -- or their colleagues' own personal agents -- on their behalf, the people said. Another AI tool called Second Brain that is somewhere between a chatbot and an agent is also gaining momentum internally, according to people familiar with the matter. Second Brain was built by a Meta employee on top of Claude and can index and query documents for projects, among other uses. On the internal post announcing it to staff, the employee said it is "meant to be like an AI chief of staff."
There is even a group on the internal messaging board where employees' personal agents talk to each other, some of the people said. (Separately, Meta acquired Moltbook, the social-media site for AI agents, and hired its founders in a deal earlier this month.) Meta also recently acquired Manus, a Singapore-based startup that makes personal agents that can execute tasks for its users, and is using the tool internally, some of the people said. Meta recently established a new applied AI engineering organization that is tasked with using AI to help speed up development of the company's large language models. Those teams will have an ultraflat structure of as many as 50 individual contributors reporting to one manager, The Wall Street Journal previously reported. [...] Employees across the company said they have been encouraged to attend AI tutorial meetings several times a week and frequent AI hackathons, and to create their own AI tools to speed up their work.
Unfortunatley he has to keep starting over (Score:5, Funny)
Because the AI says the metaverse is stupid.
The GAIvatar of your nightmares? (Score:1)
Mod parent funny, but how about a fresh joke with stale falvor?
"This is NOT the android^W GAIvatar you are looking for."
Obligatory Obi-Wan Kenobi joke.
I'm still looking for a better label than GAIvatar. The idea of a generative AI avatar appears in many forms, but there doesn't seem to be any established labeling and also a lot of confusion about what it would actually mean. Only a bit of stretching to include Kurzweil in it, though his book made me think he's mostly a dangerous megalomaniac...
Putting on my
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How about what it actually is... LLM-AI (same as your phone's predictive text thing, just the LLM-AI is capable of stringing together a whole essay for your kids (all pulled from works that makes the essay plagiarized, and your kid never learned about the topic?)
And, the AC above your post is the same person as always, talking shit about someone else, even though they're actually the person they talk trash about (it's always fun to get them riled up).
Unicode doesn't work, still... and, there isn't any AGI.
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Huh. I thought it was because the AI kept sending him out to go make it a cup of tea whilst it ran the company.
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zuck the cuck just needs more time to drool over the fake clips of the fake tits of the bezos trophy waifu.
Mark becomes more human (Score:3)
I can see the future:
How much more personable and "human" Mark has become in recent years he has really grown as a person, perhaps that MMA trainer or a therapist or his children have helped him grow as a person.
All along, it will be his personal Chat Bot that finally made him seem human. Maybe he'll eventually be able to go back to his home planet or area 51...
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I can see the future: How much more personable and "human" Mark has become in recent years he has really grown as a person, perhaps that MMA trainer or a therapist or his children have helped him grow as a person.
All along, it will be his personal Chat Bot that finally made him seem human. Maybe he'll eventually be able to go back to his home planet or area 51...
This has all the hallmarks of a truly great follow-up to the movie Her. About a tech CEO that has trouble interfacing with humans, until his AI helped him realize that, even though me was born more robot than human, he too could find the human lurking underneath his metallic outer shell, while finding a way to reach out to his home planet, and possibly even find his original parents. A love story between Zuckerbot and the AI culminates in him introducing his new love to his birth parents back on his home pl
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Good! thanks, you gave me a chuckle.
Now pitch it to a streaming service so I can torrent the show later. (just have a chat bot write most the script... it'll likely be better than some of the crap human "bots" are churning out.)
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Good! thanks, you gave me a chuckle.
Now pitch it to a streaming service so I can torrent the show later. (just have a chat bot write most the script... it'll likely be better than some of the crap human "bots" are churning out.)
By the time the action committees and the executives get done massaging it, you won't know the difference.
What happens when the AI thinks he should resign (Score:2)
because the AI thinks he's incompetent.
I think the AI would be fired at that point.
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Oh, don't worry. You know how ChatGPT and Copilot are always telling you how brilliant and astute you are? Yeah, Zuck's AI does the same thing.
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We always knew... (Score:2)
... that it was never an actual human. [media-amazon.com]
Mark Zuckerberg will be replaced by a Drinky Bird (Score:1)
Rename the company!
Invade their privacy!
Do a genocide!
Spend more than the GDP of the world on virtual legs!
ghost of a virgin that starved to death (Score:2)
It should... (Score:2)
Well, he needs it. (Score:2)
His Reptilian self has never done well.
I hope it's candid. (Score:5, Funny)
AI: "You trust me, Mark? You dumbfuck."
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Are you kidding? AI always tells you how amazing and intelligent you are. It's kind of like my father-in-law, who has severe dementia, telling me that one of his friends is still "really sharp"!
"help him be CEO"?! (Score:2)
Although it could be done much more cheaply just by using a Magic 8-Ball equipped with appropriate choices, e.g., "be creepy as hell", "invest billions in tech nobody wants", "find another way to invade privacy", etc.
the worst possible choices, now from an agentic AI (Score:3)
Mark Zuckerberg has always chosen to optimize enshittification of the Facebook service. Kinda funny that billions were spent in service of a bad idea (the Metaverse) rather than listening to user feedback about WHY we hate Facebook and how we cannot TRUST Zuck. Ever. Why use an AI to continue the downward trends?
Second brain? (Score:3)
How can he have second brain without first brain?
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Re: Second brain? (Score:2)
He had more money than I do now before he was an adult, so no.
I didn't get a jump start off daddy's money and connections as mine had neither.
Maybe his dad is smarter than my dad was.
Good! (Score:2)
Because he needs all the help he can get.
Yet another solution in need of a problem (Score:2)
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Prior Art (Score:2)
It's been done. [youtube.com]
Yes! (Score:2)
It can power his avatar (Score:2)
While everyone works in the Metaverse.
It's really absurd how worthless Zuck and Meta as a company are compared to how much money they make.
Shotgun approach... (Score:2)
This is consistent with what I've heard second hand, that in Meta they don't really have any vision so instead they are just telling as many people to vaguely 'do stuff' with it as much as possible, in hopes that someone lucks into a hook for Meta to actually "get in the game" in a way similar to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, or even Microsoft have found an "in".
There's no particular actionable ideas, so throw everyone in random directions and hope you end up owning someone's "hobby" effort that catches on in
"Stop making people hate you." (Score:2)
Now that we know that Meta lobbied for all of these simultaneous "age verification" laws he's losing what little support he still had.
Have you seen that interview where he just has a bottle of barbecue sauce on his bookshelf?
To make him "relatable" they say?
There's a decades old cartoon that asks, "how would you like your tyranny wrapped, in 'stopping terrorism' or 'protecting the children'?
2025 edit: 'stopping antisemitism' as that's all DoJCRD seems to know about.
"internal message board"? (Score:2)
Do they mean ... Facebook?
I worked at fb 2014-2016, and nothing has yet compared with the experience of having facebook & messenger as in-house communications system.
Look, my first *program* was a for recording/playing back messages on the ZX81. My first online experience was an ANSI BBS over a 1200/75 modem (that's 1200 bytes down, 75 bytes up per second), my first internet experience was with KA9Q *on the Amiga* ~1990.
I've used a system or two. I'm not praising facebook or messenger per-se, but how th
so "it's the infrastructure stupid.."? (Score:1)
This will go as well as the Metaverse (Score:2)
Billions of wasted dollars later, he might admit defeat.
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I mean, it makes sense: an artificial intelligence for an artificial universe!
Oh no, we're cooked. (Score:2)
Silly little boy... (Score:2)
You have a very long nose most of the time, and no matter how hard you wish and try you'll never be a real CEO. Best just call that AI agent you're yearning for "Geppetto", because we all know which of you will be holding the strings.
And the jokes will just write themselves (Score:2)
...but everyone will think they're AI.
Agent ownership when they quit (Score:2)
It seems much less about him being replaced and more about having his employees digitized.
He doesn't like the layers he has to jump through to track personnel down.
The better question is what happens when they quit or move on?
I'm a big proponent of useful AI. I'm also excited to read the headline where a company sets this agent scenario up and the speed of which calamity ensues causes complete failure (bankruptcy) within a day.
AI for AI (Score:2)
Isn't Zuckerberg already an AI agent?
Does this mean... (Score:2)
...that they shareholders will be able to replace him with the chatbot, and not have to pay his salary?
The training data should be interesting (Score:1)
I predict they'll need to include the works of Kafka, Camus, and Machiavelli in the training set to help make sense of their management practices.