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Meta has set up an institution to specialize in post-graduate AI and plans to commercialize it by December this year. Seeing that Xiaoza has finally gone black on the meta-universe, Meta investors finally breathe a sigh of relief.

So, Xiaoza decided to abandon meta-universe?

According to Andrew Bosworth, Meta's chief technology officer, Horizon Worlds, a meta-universe full of moribund virtual images, was almost abandoned by Meta CEO Xiaoza.

Now, Xiaoza seems to spend most of his time chasing investors' favorite Silicon Valley trend, generative AI, and setting a goal of commercializing generative AI by December this year.

CTO: Andrew Bosworth, chief technology officer of Xiaoza, who is fully committed to AIGCMeta, told the Nippon Keizai Shimbun, "We just set up a new team, the generative AI team, a few months ago, and they are very busy. Me, Ozza and Chris Cox, the chief product officer, have spent most of their time on this recently. "

Although Meta announced in February that it would set up a new organization to develop generative AI, this is the first time it has publicly revealed its commercialization schedule.

Wait, did you hear something?

Yes, it was a lonely pixel tear that fell on the floor of the abandoned Horizon Worlds.

To be fair, as Bosworth said, Facebook has been working on AI for many years, and their big language model LLaMa is indeed very powerful.

In the interview, Bosworth also offered an olive branch to the metasverse. According to him, Meta hopes to build an AI that will not take away people's attention from the meta-universe, but will make it better.

In the past, if I wanted to create a 3D world, I needed to learn a lot about computer graphics and programming. But in the near future, you just need to describe the world you want to create, and then let the big language model generate the world for you. "

Last October, Xiaoza doubled his bet on meta-universe, and now he is finally smart enough to make the transition. Investors in Meta must be thrilled.

No matter how Meta performs in the current big AI competition, at least investors no longer have to worry that Xiaoza has gone black in meta-universe.

Meta: of course it's for making money.

But what will Meta do in the short term?

According to Bosworth's comments, there is no doubt that Meta is preparing to deploy AI in its huge advertising machine.

Specifically, Meta plans to commercialize the company's proprietary generative AI by December.

Yes, advertising is the source of most of Meta's revenue, as opposed to the multibillion-dollar bottomless pit, metamosmos.

Meta also hopes to eventually apply AI technology to all products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, as well as meta-universe, which Meta used to be very keen on.

Although, OpenAI's commercialization of ChatGPT has been tested by technology companies all over the world. But Bosworth insists that Meta is at the forefront of generative AI technology.

"I expect that this year, you will see the commercialization of some of these technologies. "

"in this regard, we are very confident and convinced that we are in a very cutting-edge position. Many of the key technologies for the development of large language models were pioneered by our team. "

From a certain point of view, it is.

As early as 2013, Meta invited Yann LeCun, one of the Turing Big three, to join and set up a corresponding AI research laboratory.

And according to the Dutch AI research and analysis platform Zeta Alpha, the number of citations of AI research published by Meta in 2022 is second only to Google.

Bosworth believes that Meta's AI can tell advertisers what tools to use when making ads, which greatly improves the effectiveness of advertising.

Instead of using a single image in advertising, he says, "it saves a lot of time and money by having AI create images that suit you for different audiences." "

In this way, maybe we will soon see those AI ads that are perfectly targeted at us.

But while expectations are high for generative AI to handle a large number of tasks efficiently, the possible threats posed by AI cannot be ignored, such as the recent open letter calling for a six-month suspension of Super AI research, which has been signed by nearly 20, 000 bosses.

However, Bosworth did not agree with the appeal of the open letter.

"I think it is very important to make responsible investments, and we have always adhered to this concept. "

"however, it is very difficult to stop progress and make absolutely right decisions in the course of change. Many times, before you know how to ensure the security of a technology, you must first understand how it has evolved. "

"therefore, I think this appeal is not only unrealistic, but also invalid. "

In Xiaoza's abandoned fantasy world, "the moment I first boarded Horizon Worlds, I felt that meta-universe looked a little desolate, like an abandoned shopping mall." "

Here, users can choose their own avatars, but with Meta's template, everyone ends up looking something the same: no happiness at all.

Everyone is the same height; everyone's face is symmetrical. Few people are fat or old, and age is usually expressed only by gray hair, as if it were just an unintuitive fashion choice.

The netizen named Paul Murray said that you can visit a lot of "worlds" in Horizon Worlds.

However, the word is somewhat misleading, because these worlds, most of which are designed by users, range from very small to very small.

Moreover, due to technological limitations, a single "world" can accommodate up to 32 people, while many of the "worlds" Paul has visited, there are no people at all.

On her first trip, Paul chose a world called Party House.

In a moment, the screen turned blue, playing calm Ding Dong music, there was a message: the world is being prepared. And then I arrived.

The Party House itself is a square purple building, surprisingly primitive, as if it were made of online building blocks.

Among them, there is a rectangular blue swimming pool that can be "entered", although it doesn't make any sense. In addition, there is a patio where DJ plays house music. On the other hand, the upper body of users is wandering around.

In fact, this is the case in most of the world. In Horizon Worlds, whether you are in a hippie cafe or a winter wonderland, the architectural style can be called "Minecraft style".

As time went on, a strange feeling seized Paul-- 's boredom. It's really boring!

"I haven't experienced this feeling since I had a smartphone. "

It also reminded him of gathering with friends on Zoom during the epidemic-everyone's face appeared in a box on the screen, like a contestant in a frustrating game show without prizes. And the feeling of no entity makes the distance between us farther than ever before.

After a series of experiences, Paul Murray concluded: "after spending a long time in Horizon Worlds's cartoon world, I even feel a little uneasy to see that real human beings have a lower body." "

Reference:

Https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Meta-to-debut-ad-creating-generative-AI-this-year-CTO-says

Https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: Xin Zhiyuan (ID:AI_era)

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