// THE VERGE — INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE
In Meta’s version of the future, I’ll have my Muse call your Muse
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“... everyone is just going to have to adapt,” Meta’s chief financial officer Susan Li said during the third-quarter earnings call.
“... everyone is just going to have to adapt,” Meta’s chief financial officer Susan Li said during the third-quarter earnings call.
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Mark Zuckerberg is barrelling toward a future in which an autonomous network of AI agents will run our lives — shopping for us, working for us, talking to other people’s AI agents for us. Are humans ready for this very specific and unrelenting vision of a life in which we communicate primarily through bot proxies? Actually, don’t answer that. The more urgent question coming off Meta’s quarterly earnings call Wednesday night is more likely to be: “Is he?”
Zuckerberg is staking Meta’s future on Muse, the personal AI agent it released to the general public last month. It’s early days, but Zuckerberg told investors on Wednesday’s call that he sees a future where “billions” of people are using Muse, and those people’s Muses are talking to and transacting with other people’s Muses in a “large-scale Muse network.”
The Muses will be “extremely capable” personal agents that will help us achieve our goals and improve our lives in “whatever ways you want,” Zuckerberg said, “whether that’s improving your relationships, helping you save time, save money, build a business, create new things, or anything else that you can dream of.” By this logic, Zuckerberg says, we’ll all be so hooked on Muse that it will eventually generate more revenue per user for Meta than Instagram and Facebook, which as of today, bring in pretty much all of the money Meta makes.
This ecosystem of personal AI agents “can work with your friends and your families, and if you want to buy something, it’s not just navigating to that business’s website; it’s talking to their agent,” Zuckerberg said. “I think that getting that all to work well together is going to unlock tremendous value at scale.”