Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he hopes people have AI-generated friends. The Facebook founder believes that there are far fewer friends most people want, and that his AI bot will fill the gap.
“We use technology that really needs to be blended perfectly with the physical and digital world,” Zuckerberg said in an episode Tuesday. Dwarkesh Podcast.
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The host of technology-centric podcast Dwarkesh Patel told meta CEO that people already have “meaningful relationships with AI therapists” and “meaningful relationships with AI friends” and that “as these AIs become more unique, more personality and more intelligent, this gets more intense.”
Zuckerberg argues that the average American has “less than three friends (three who consider friends), and that the average person is in demand.
“The average person wants more connections than they have,” Meta said before acknowledging public concerns about AI, “Is this going to replace face-to-face connections and real-world connections?”
“And my default is probably no,” Zuckerberg said. “When you can have them, I think there's all the better things about physical connections, but the reality is that people just don't have connections and they feel more time than they want.”
The billionaire added that “many of these things” believes that “many of these things” will eventually be resolved “over time.”
Zuckerberg added that he believes people will begin using AI “for many of these social tasks.”
“One of the main things people who already use meta AI see is talking through the necessary and difficult conversations with people in life,” Zuckerberg said, citing people who use artificial intelligence to brainstorm discussions with their girlfriends and bosses.
“And when the personalization loop starts and the AI starts to get to know you better, I think it's really appealing,” he said.
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On the other side of AI technology, Zuckerberg claimed one day that “we can basically always have video chats,” including artificial intelligence, which includes “all nonverbal” gestures that make up more than half of the communication you're in real life.
Patel said he was “almost optimistic about technology.” He said he was “a libertarian about people that I think are probably good for them,” but admitted, “we're worried that we'll just remove all the friction between getting fully rewarded with technology.”
“How do you confirm that this isn't going to happen five years later?” the podcast host asked Zuckerberg replied.
The CEO of Meta said, “The main thing I see here is how important the digital world is in all of our lives, and it's just the only way through these physical digital screens.”
“It seems we're just at that point with technology that's supposed to really perfectly blend the physical and digital worlds,” Zuckerberg said. “And that's what holographic overlays can do.”
“You could bring digital artifacts into those interactions and do something very seamlessly cool,” he added. “If we two are physically here and we have a third friend who is holographic, they can join too.”
“But I don't want people to feel that way in that world, just as I don't want your physical space to be messy, because it psychologically wears you — I don't want people to make digital physical spaces feel that way,” Zuckerberg argued.
“It's a more aesthetic norm and I think we have to solve it,” he said. “But I think we'll get that.”
Alana Mastrangelo is a reporter for Breitbart News. You can follow her Facebook and x at @armestrangeloand on Instagram.
