Mark Zuckerberg‘s Meta building world’s most powerful AI computer

Meta is continuing its journey into the metaverse with the development of the world’s most powerful artificial intelligence system.

Mark Zuckerberg’s rebranded company Meta has announced its latest project building the world’s fastest artificial intelligence (AI) computer.

And when complete, it will be able to teach artificial intelligence to other pieces of technology.

Dubbed the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), the AI computer is already the fifth fastest in the world and it’s likely it will be top of that list at its completion in mid-2022.

Mr Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook which rebranded as Meta last year, wrote in a post that the product will help the next generation of AI.

The AI computer, dubbed the AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), is already the fifth fastest in the world and will likely become the quickest at its completion in mid-2022. Picture: Meta

“Meta has developed what we believe is the world’s fastest AI supercomputer. We’re calling it RSC for AI Research SuperCluster,” Mr Zuckerberg said.

“The experiences we’re building for the metaverse require enormous compute [sic] power (quintillions of operations/second) and RSC will enable new AI models that can learn from trillions of examples, understand hundreds of languages and more.”

The computer was designed specifically to train machine learning systems.

It will be used across many areas including content moderation, detecting hate speech and augmented reality (AR) features.

The computer was designed specifically to train machine learning systems. Picture: Meta

While AI and augmented reality has largely been seen as a tool for gaming, this product makes it clear that Meta is focused on business.

Meta engineers Kevin Lee and Shubho Sengupta said in a blog post when the development is complete it will be a groundbreaking piece of technology.

“RSC will help Meta’s AI researchers build new and better AI models that can learn from trillions of examples; work across hundreds of different languages; seamlessly analyse text, images, and video together; develop new augmented reality tools; and much more,” they wrote.

“We hope RSC will help us build entirely new AI systems that can, for example, power real-time voice translations to large groups of people, each speaking a different language, so they can seamlessly collaborate on a research project or play an AR game together.”

It has applications for many different areas. Picture: Meta

The move to dominate the metaverse has some experts worried as they question whether the Meta company should be allowed to dominate the virtual world in the same way it has shaped social media.

Technology experts Marcus Carter and Ben Egliston say that Meta’s vision for the metaverse could perhaps be guessed at by looking at how it had moulded people’s online lives into a “gigantic revenue stream based on power, control and surveillance, fuelled by our data”.

They believe another vision is possible that embodies “an open, collaborative and consensus-driven way to develop technologies and tools”.

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