Zuck Flopped the Metaverse. Why Trust Him With Our Future?

Mark Zuckerberg once sold our metors. Now he wants us to believe that he will take us to the era of superintendent. Should we read for it again?

Elon Kasturi once called him “fourteen zak”, comparing a job Mater CEO to King Louis IV of France – a notorious king to ignore his ego, exaggeration and boundary. This is a suitable label, especially the Zuckerberg titles, as well as the new AI King of Silicon Valley.

But let’s rewind.

Just a few years ago, Zuckerberg announced that metors were the future of humanity. In a quick -produced video released on October 26, 2021, he rebuilt Facebook as a meta platform and declared, “Metters are the next border.” It was a bold new vision: a 3D immersed virtual world where we will live, work and socialize as a digital avatar using meta-exposed VR headsets and smart glasses.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjni9k1D_XO

Meta poured about $ 20 billion in reality labs, the department was responsible for creating this digital utopia in one year. Promise? A vibrant virtual one from the real world to a pauseless escape.

But the promised land never came. Despite the investment, the user did not follow acceptance. Horizon Worlds, Meter Flagship Metavers platform, fought to retain interest. The headsets were cloak, software buggy and use cases are unclear. People didn’t want to stay in VR. Flopped to Metavars.

Now, Zuckerberg wants to believe the public and Tech World that he is leading the charge on the next big subject: Artificial General Intelligence or AGI. This is the Holy Grail of AI. A moment when the machines surpass the human intelligence throughout almost all the work. This is what is called some superjections, and it is no longer just science fiction.

However there is a problem. Meta is not leading. OpenAI, Google’s Gemi and China’s DIPSEC have moved forward with more advanced models and equipment. Meta Lama models are capable, but not groundbreaking. AI Arms Races is the biggest claim of the company to gain fame? Its larger language models are made of open source.

Now Zuckerberg is trying to change it by opening his wallet.

Meta AI has started the “Giant Offer” offer at the top of the AI ​​researchers, which is happening in the propagation of aggressive victims. According to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, some of these offers have exceeded $ 100 million. Meta has already removed the original talent, including Alexander Wang (founder of Scale AI), Nat Fredman (former Githab CEO) and Shengia Zhao, Shucho BI, Jihui U and Hongwu Ren.

Zuckerberg is not hiding it. He is recently Declaration Meta is an ambitious attempt to create superstelgence labs, integrate AI attempt under one roof and jump in competition. In his internal memory, he promised that Meta would lead the way of supply of personal superjections, an AI that could manage your life, schedule your time, guide your decisions and originally served as a personal brain assistant.

And he made it clear: he did not appoint.

It’s a dramatic pivot and a cute. AI is no longer hype. It’s here, and it transforms everything from how we work. You fear it or take it, AI is turning the next episode of human life.

However, this does not mean that Zuckerberg can be his face.

After all, this is the same executive who once told the world that a legless cartoon avatar in VR was our future. The same person who drowned a few billion in the virtual world that no one wanted. Now he is asking us to believe in him in the AGI, a technology that can re -shape the future of the world, the economy and human labor.

Zuckerberg is not an AI vision. He is a ruthless contestant who stains the next big thing and try to buy the way to the top. He couldn’t kill Tikatok, so he clone the reels. He could not achieve snapchat, so he copied the stories. Now he is applying the same playbook to AI: Buy the best guy, sell a big vision and hope the world forgets what happened last time.

If anything then his pivot in AI is proof of how serious this moment is. Because when Zuckerberg starts spending, it is not out of curiosity. Because he smells of domination.

And this can be the most interesting reason to pay attention.

Not because he is not leading the creation of artificial superjections, but who can make it and they are trying to control what rules they are governed.