As Mark Zuckerberg makes an AI version of himself, will your next boss be an avatar?
It’s obvious that Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and chief executive of Meta, the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp, would be a pioneer of emerging tech — no matter how dubious the rest of us might be. Perhaps most notably, he turned into a Sims-like avatar of himself and entered a virtual reality world as his company attempted desperately — and unsuccessfully — to make the metaverse a thing. Now the tech tycoon, estimated to be worth about £164 billion, is trying another way to reach his 80,000 employees: an AI version of himself, trained on data which includes his public and private thoughts on the company’s strategies.
