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On Wednesday, Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, revealed that Mark Zuckerberg, the company's chief executive, now spends most of his time on AI. He also said the proposal by Musk and others to suspend AI research and development was "impractical".

Meta plans to commercialize its own generative artificial intelligence (AIGC) technology by December and work with Google to explore the practical application of the technology. Meta has been working on artificial intelligence since 2013 and has published the same number of research results as Google.

"We have invested in artificial intelligence for more than a decade and have the world's leading research institutions." "We certainly have a huge research organization with hundreds of employees," Bosworth said in an interview in Tokyo on Wednesday. "

In February this year, Meta announced the formation of a new team to develop AIGC technology. Now, for the first time, they have revealed a timetable for the commercialization of the technology. OpenAI, the founder of ChatGPT, has commercialized the technology for creating sentences and graphics in real time, but Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, believes his company is still at the forefront of the field.

"We firmly believe that we are always at the forefront of technology," Bosworth said. Our team pioneered many technologies in the development of large-scale language models. I expect to begin to see some of these technologies commercialized this year. We set up the AIGC team a few months ago and they have a lot of work to do. This is the area where me, Zuckerberg and Chris Cox (Chris Cox, chief product officer) invest the most time. "

Bosworth believes that to some extent, Meta's AI technology can improve advertising effectiveness by telling advertisers what tools to use to make ads. Advertisers can order AI to "make images for my company that suit different audiences," instead of using the same image all the time in advertising campaigns, he said. This can help save a lot of time and money.

Advertising is the main source of revenue for Meta. The company hopes to eventually apply the technology to all its products and services, including Facebook and Instagram.

In addition, the technology will also be used in meta-universe, the realistic virtual world that Meta is actively developing. "in the past, to create a 3D world, you needed to learn a lot of computer graphics and programming," Bosworth says. but in the future, you may be able to generate large language models for you simply by describing the world you want to create. this makes it easier for more people to access areas such as content creation. "

In 2013, Meta invited Yann LeCun, a French scientist and leading expert in the field of AI, to join and set up the AI research laboratory. According to the Dutch AI research and analysis platform Zeta Alpha, among the major AI research results published in 2022, Meta's research was cited second only to Google.

Despite the high expectations that AIGC can handle a large number of tasks efficiently, there are still concerns, especially about its loss of control over human civilization. In March, the Future of Life Institute, a U.S.-based non-profit organization, launched a petition to suspend the development of AI technology for at least six months. The petition was supported by American entrepreneur Musk and others.

Bosworth says he disagrees. "I think it's very important to invest in projects that develop AI technology responsibly, and we always do," he said. "however, it is very difficult to stop the evolution of AI and make the right decisions about the changes you are asking for. Usually, you have to understand the development of technology before you can ensure its security. So I think this idea is not only unrealistic, but also will not work."

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