Meta asks Metaverse workers to use AI to ‘go 5x faster’
Meta manager The person in charge of building the company’s metaverse products told employees they should use AI to “go 5x faster,” according to an internal message obtained by 404 Media.
“Metaverse AI4P: Think 5X, not 5%,” said the message, posted by Vishal Shah, Vice President of Metaverse at Metaverse, (AI4P is AI for Productivity). The idea is that programmers should use AI to work five times more efficiently than they currently do, not just use it to work. percent More efficiently.
“Our goal is simple but bold: make AI a habit, not a novelty. This means prioritizing training and certification for everyone, so that using AI becomes second nature — just like any other tool we rely on,” the letter said. “It also means integrating Al into every major code base and workflow.” Shah added that this does not only apply to engineers. “I want to see project heads, designers and [cross functional] “Partners are rolling up their sleeves and building prototypes, fixing bugs, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible,” he wrote. “I want to see us progress 5x faster by eliminating the frictions that slow us down. And 5 times faster to reach the texture of our products more quickly. Imagine a world where anyone can quickly prototype an idea, and feedback loops are measured in hours, not weeks. This is the future we are building.”
The Metaverse products, which CEO Mark Zuckerberg rebranded the company to highlight, were… A massive time sink and money pitwith The company spends tens of billions of dollars Develop a product that is used by relatively few people.
Zuckerberg has spoken extensively about how he does this predicts artificial intelligence agents To write most of the meta code Over the next 12 to 18 months. The company also recently decided to allow job candidates to use artificial intelligence Part of their coding tests during job interviews. But Shah’s letter highlights a fear that workers have had for some time: that bosses not only expect workers to be replaced by AI, but that those who remain using AI will become far more efficient. The implicit assumption is that the work done by skilled humans without AI is not good enough.
At this point, most tech giants are pushing AI into their workforce. Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees in July that he expected artificial intelligence to completely change the way the company operates.It leads to job loss. “In the next few years, we expect this to reduce our overall workforce across the company as we get efficiency gains from using AI more widely across the company,” he said.