Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg appears at the Meta Connect event in Menlo Park, California, on Sept. 25, 2024. Meta debuted its first pair of augmented reality glasses, devices that show a combined view of the digital and physical worlds, a key step in Zuckerberg's goal of one day offering a hands-free alternative to the smartphone.Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Joe Rogan in a podcast published on Friday that his company was pressured by the Biden administration to remove content on side effects of Covid vaccines. ...

Mark Zuckerberg craves one metric more than any other: engagement, the statistic that tracks how long social media users spend scrolling, clicking, commenting, and viewing ads. More engagement, more profit. The Meta CEO will do almost anything to keep users online for an extra two minutes – even, it seems, surrender his websites to a flood of fake news.On Tuesday, Zuckerberg announced that his company plans to fire its US factcheckers and weaken its ability to moderate disinformation on Facebook, Instagram, ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made his surprise announcement this week to slash content moderation policies in the United States. There will be "real-world harm" if Meta expands its decision to scrap fact-checking on Facebook and Instagram, a global network warned Thursday while disputing Mark Zuckerberg's claim such mode ...

Meta Platforms (META) closed the most recent trading day at $610.72, moving -1.16% from the previous trading session. The stock trailed the S&P 500, which registered a daily gain of 0.16%. Elsewhere, the Dow saw an upswing of 0.25%, while the tech-heavy Nasdaq depreciated by 0.06%.The social media company's shares have seen a decrease of 3.47% over the last month, not keeping up with the Computer and Technology sector's loss of 0.39% and the S&P 500's loss of 2.7%.Investors will be eagerly watching for the ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Meta has said it will end fact-checking operations on its Facebook and Instagram platforms. Australia is deeply concerned by Meta's decision to scrap US fact-check operations on its Facebook and Instagram platforms, a senior minister said Thursday. The government—which has been at the forefront of efforts to rein in social med ...

Core Argument - Meta's Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun criticizes the current definitions of artificial general intelligence (AGI), stating that scaling text-based large language models (LLMs) alone is insufficient to achieve AGI [1] - LeCun disagrees with OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's claim that AGI has already been achieved and that the focus is now on superintelligence [1] Limitations of LLMs - LLMs, as they exist today, cannot achieve human-level intelligence due to their reliance on autoregressive text completion, which lacks the multimodal understanding of human brains [2] - Current AI systems are mostly "narrow AI," excelling in specific tasks but failing when tasks deviate slightly from their training [2] - Scaling LLMs is reaching a point of diminishing returns, making further improvements expensive and less effective [5] Challenges in AI Development - AI systems struggle with physical tasks, such as plumbing, due to the complexity of understanding and manipulating the physical world [4] - Even with advancements, AI systems are far from matching the physical world understanding of animals like cats or dogs [5] - The cost of scaling LLMs remains high, with OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro not yet profitable despite its $200/month subscription fee [6] Progress in AI-Powered Robotics - Generative world models are emerging as a cost-effective and low-risk solution for training AI-powered robots in virtual environments [6] - Nvidia's Cosmos platform enables developers to create synthetic data for training physical AI systems like robots and autonomous vehicles [7] - Google DeepMind and Fei Fei Li's World Labs are investing in generative world models, with significant funding from prominent Silicon Valley figures [8] - The "ChatGPT moment" for robotics, driven by world models, could be 3-5 years away [8] Future of AI Assistants - AI agents are expected to become more common as people grow accustomed to using specialized AI assistants for specific tasks [9] - These AI assistants will be task-specific and not capable of performing activities from scratch without specific training [9]

Mark Zuckerberg’s decision to end factchecking on Facebook and Instagram in the US already has factchecking journalists bracing for cuts at their at organizations, given the size of Meta’s funding.The social media giant has provided more than $100m for outside organizations certified by the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN) to conduct factchecks on its social networks since 2016, which would result in posts receiving accuracy ratings and having their reach reduced if false. Major outlets like USA T ...

MENLO PARK, Calif., Jan. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ: META) announced today that the company's fourth quarter and full year 2024 financial results will be released after market close on Wednesday, January 29, 2025.  Meta will host a conference call to discuss its results at 2:00 p.m. PT / 5:00 p.m. ET the same day. The live webcast of the call can be accessed at the Meta Investor Relations website at investor.fb.com, along with the company's earnings press release, financial tables, ...

The decision by the social media giant Meta to end factchecking in the United States is “bad for democracy”, Brazil’s newly appointed communication minister, Sidonio Palmeira, said on Wednesday.Meta’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, stunned many with his announcement on Tuesday that he was pulling the plug on factchecking at Facebook and Instagram in the US, citing concerns about political bias.Palmeira said Meta’s decision was “bad for democracy because [without factchecking] you don’t control the spread ...

This article has been reviewed according to Science X's editorial process and policies . Editors have highlighted the following attributes while ensuring the content's credibility: Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Meta has announced it will abandon its fact-checking program, starting in the United States. It was aimed at preventing the spread of online lies among more than 3 billion people who use Meta's social media platforms, including Facebook, Instagram and Threads. In a video, the company's chief, ...