扎克伯格对员工表示 AI 智能体进展未达预期

用 AI 替代人似乎没那么容易，Meta 就可以作为一个例子。

路透社报道称，在本周四的一次内部全体会议上，首席执行官马克·扎克伯格告诉员工，AI 智能体的开发速度并未“如高管们此前预期的那样加速”。

今年早些时候，Meta 裁员约 8000 人——约占总员工的 10%——并将另外 7000 人重新分配到多个 AI 团队，包括一个名为“智能体转型”的团队，彭博社报道。

在本周的会议上，扎克伯格显然就这些裁员发表了评论——指出这些裁员并不像预期得那样“干脆”。据报道，扎克伯格补充说，裁员的起因是公司高层“担心我们无法足够快地调整”来适应科技行业不断变化的格局。

这位公司领导者还显然表示，以 AI 为重点的新公司架构所设想的好处“尚未实现”，尽管他相信未来三到六个月内公司将开始看到 AI 投资带来的改进。根据部分被分配到该部门的工程师的说法，其他几份调查报道曾将Meta 成立仅数月的 AI 部门描述为摧残精神的古拉格。

据路透社报道，Meta 在 AI 领域投入巨大，预计今年将在 AI 基础设施上花费高达 1450 亿美元。

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Replacing people with AI doesn’t seem to be that easy to do, if Meta can be seen as an example.

Reuters reports that at an internal town hall Thursday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staff that the pace of AI agent development had not “accelerated in the way” executives had previously expected them to.

Earlier this year, Meta laid off some 8,000 employees — approximately 10% of its corporate workforce — and reassigned another 7,000 to various AI groups, including one called Agent Transformation, Bloomberg reported.

During this week’s meeting, Zuckerberg apparently commented on these job cuts — noting that they were not as “clean” as they should have been. The cuts were made because top officials at the company “were worried that we weren’t going to move fast enough ‌to adapt” to the changing landscape of the tech industry, Zuckerberg reportedly added.

The corporate leader also apparently said that the perceived upside of the new AI-focused company structure hadn’t “come to ​fruition yet,” although he said that he believed the company would begin to see improvements from its AI investments during the next three to six months. Several other investigative reports have depicted Meta’s months-old AI unit as a soul-crushing gulag, according to some of the engineers assigned to it.

Meta has invested heavily in AI and is expected to spend as much as $145 billion on AI infrastructure this year, Reuters reports.

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