Superinteligence refers to a hypothetical AI system that would exceed human cognitive abilities – a step beyond artificial intelligence (AGI), which aims to match an intelligent human’s capacity for learning new tasks without intensive specialized training.
However, much like AGI, superintelligence remains a nebulous term in the field. Since scientists still poorly understand the mechanics of human intelligence, and because human intelligence resists simple quantification with no single definition, identifying super intelligence when it arrives will present significant challenges.
TechCrunch reported: Meta plans to unveil a new AI research lab dedicated to “superintelligence” as the company works to compete in the AI race, according to several reports.
Meta has tapped Scale AI founder and CEO Alexandr Want to join the new lab, The New York Times reports. Meta ha been in talks to invest billions of Scale AI employees to Meta. Meta has also been poaching lead researchers from OpenAI and Google, per the Times.
The new lab comes as Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg grows frustrated with his company’s AI shortfalls. Bloomberg reports he has been meeting with AI researchers and engineers at his homes in Lake Tahoe and Palo Alto to personally recruit a team of around 50 people, including a new head of AI research.
CNBC reported: Meta is forming a new artificial intelligence research lab and bringing on Alexandr Wang, founder and CEO of the startup Scale AI, according to The New York Times.
The research lab is going to pursue a concept known as “superintelligence,” which is an AI system that surpasses human intelligence, The Times reported Tuesday. Meta is also involved in advanced talks to invest more than $10 billion in Scale AI, according to a report from Bloomberg.
The reported research lab is Meta’s latest effort to gain an edge in the fiercely competitive AI development space. Meta has been pouring billions of dollars into the technology, announcing plans to spend as much as $65 billion in capital expenditures for AI infrastructure this year.
Late last month, Meta announced that its AI assistant supports 1 billion monthly active users across the company’s family of apps. In February, CNBC reported that Meta was planning to debut a stand-alone Meta AI app during the second quarter and test a paid subscription service akin to rival chat apps such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.