Jakarta (ANTARA) - Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has predicted\nthat billions of people will have personal artificial intelligence (AI)\nagents within the next five years.<\/p>\n
According to TechCrunch, Zuckerberg made the prediction at the\ncompany\u2019s quarterly earnings conference with investors on Wednesday (29\nJuly).<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s very unlikely, if you look five years ahead \u2014 whatever\ntimeframe you want \u2014 that you won\u2019t have billions of people with\npersonal agents that understand your goals and that work on your behalf\n24\/7 to achieve your goals in whatever area you care about,\u201d he\nsaid.<\/p>\n
According to him, people in the future will use AI agents to help\nthem manage financial affairs, health, interpersonal relationships and\nhousehold management.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we move towards a future where we all interact with many agents,\nI think WhatsApp and our other messaging platforms will become\nincreasingly important,\u201d said Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n
He added that WhatsApp has already become the leading platform where\nusers interact with Meta AI.<\/p>\n
Google has emphasised personalised AI agents as a major new feature\nin its search service updates, which has sparked protests from users who\nfeel overwhelmed by the flood of AI results on Google.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Anthropic\u2019s Claude subscription service has soared in\npopularity as technology engineers admire the agent-based coding\nassistant Claude Code.<\/p>\n
Compared with its rivals, Meta may not yet enjoy the same confidence\nfrom investors, as it continues to pour money into innovative projects\nthat may or may not succeed.<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s shares reportedly fell almost 10 per cent following the\ncompany\u2019s earnings announcement this quarter.<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s Reality Labs, the organisation responsible for AR glasses, VR\nheadsets and related software, suffered a loss of around US$4.6 billion\n(approximately Rp83.17 trillion) this quarter.<\/p>\n
The division has been losing money since 2021 and the total value of\nits losses now stands at around US$88 billion (approximately Rp1.59\nquadrillion).<\/p>\n
The company reported free cash flow of US$784 million this quarter,\ndown from US$8.55 billion in the same quarter last year. That represents\na 91 per cent year-on-year decline, exacerbated by the company\u2019s\ninvestment in AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe that profit margins from selling artificial intelligence\nwill remain far higher than selling computing directly, but we think\nthere is a great opportunity, of course, to sell computing as well,\u201d\nsaid Zuckerberg.<\/p>\n
He believes the personal agents being developed by Meta will become\n\u201cthe foundation for our next wave of products and revenue lines in the\ncoming months and years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Meta\u2019s business agents, launched globally on WhatsApp and Messenger\nthis quarter, have so far been adopted by more than one million\nbusinesses.<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/mark-zuckerberg-predicts-billions-will-have-personal-ai-agents-1785412476", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }