Meta’s superintelligence dream team will be management challenge of the century


Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg may want to note: Research suggests that packing a team with too much genius can backfire. — Reuters

Meta Platforms Inc is spending a fortune to assemble the brightest minds in artificial intelligence. Chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg may want to note: Research suggests that packing a team with too much genius can backfire.

So far, more than a dozen engineers from OpenAI have defected to Meta, joined by notable experts from Anthropic and Google’s DeepMind. Zuckerberg’s wager is that by concentrating top talent and giving them unlimited resources, he can gain ground on rivals and fast-track the development of AI systems so advanced that they will approach “artificial general intelligence,” the hypothetical point at which the model surpasses human-level capacities.

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