I’m not convinced, Mark Zuckerberg. Superintelligence as super hype and the same old marketing strategy.

Today’s post is my Karen moment. What you will see is the text of Mark Zuckerber’s recent letter on Meta and the future of “superintelligence” Zuck’s letter was then marked up with my initial comments on it, more or less the way I would mark up a student’s paper. What’s missing is a long end comment in which, to a student, I would give a more general overview of what they did well and how they might improve. I’ll spare you that (in this case) lengthy exercise and only tell you that my opening line there might be something like this: “You have a topic that’s of great significance for the moment, and you identify some aspects about the future of AI that are worthy of serious discussion. One thing that does strike me, however, is that there’s an echo of AI-generated writing in the text itself. I’m not saying that you used AI to write it, but it’s interesting to note how the product here reflects certain kinds of AI habits such as generalizations, strawperson arguments, and vague historical categorization….” And now, onto the show: