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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently took aim at AI rivals for "creating God" during a recent interview with YouTuber Kane Sutter. He went on to say, "I find it a pretty big turnoff when people in the tech industry... talk about building this 'one true AI.'"Zuckerberg appeared to be alluding to some in Silicon Valley who fancy the idea of building a technology that could surpass the general intelligence of human beings. "It’s almost as if they kind of think they’re creating God or something and... it’s just — that’s not what we’re doing. I don’t think that’s how this plays out," Zuckerberg said.'I, being a historian of computing, have a rather jaded and cynical view of the hyperbolic optimism of our field.'Futurism reported that Zuckerberg contends that an AI god would essentially be unrealistic because people have different needs and interests. To sufficiently tend to all of those needs and interests, there will be a need for several different forms of artificial intelligence.The Meta CEO also went on to criticize closed AI platforms as opposed to open-source AI, adding that open-source AI would continue to encourage people to create different AIs specifically tailored to their own needs. He used OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini AI as examples to drive home his point. He added that Meta is doing things a little differently, instead focusing on creating multiple AI tools for different purposes, according to the Hindustan Times.While OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman has already suggested that artificial general intelligence—a form of AI that would be able to complete any task that a human can—is already a "reasonably close-ish future." Earlier this year, Altman said AGI will "change the world much less than we all think and it will change jobs much less than we all think."However, it is still uncertain how AGI will affect the world if it actually manifests. Shane Legg, chief AGI scientist at Google DeepMind, said that there's around a 50% chance that AGI will be a reality by 2028. But not everyone holds the same amount of optimism about the technology as Legg. Grady Booch, an IBM Fellow and chief scientist for software engineering, said that AGI will never happen."I, being a historian of computing, have a rather jaded and cynical view of the hyperbolic optimism of our field and as such am somewhat conditioned to be a contrarian when it comes to predictions such as this," Booch said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

A Florida man is in critical condition after a shark attack on the east coast of the Sunshine State. Around 11:15 a.m. on Friday, the Nassau County Sheriff's Office Marine Unit responded to a distress call from a boat reporting a shark bite that caused a "critical injury." The boat was off the coast of Fernandina Beach – which is roughly 35 miles north of Jacksonville. The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office posted a video on Facebook revealing the details of the attack and how the deputy saved the man.The man was on a fishing trip and had been bitten by the shark on the boat. The man, who was said to be in his 40s, suffered a "severe" shark bite to his right forearm and had "lost a lot of blood." A Nassau County Sheriff’s Office deputy boarded the boat and applied a tourniquet to stop the heavy bleeding.The Nassau County Sheriff’s Office said the deputy piloted the boat to the Dee Dee Bartels boat ramp – where Fernandina Beach Fire Rescue was waiting. The victim was immediately airlifted to the nearby UF Health Jacksonville Medical Center. The shark attack victim is currently listed in critical condition. The man is said to have been alert and expected to recover. Sheriff Bill Leeper of the Nassau County Sheriff's Office called the deputy a "hero" for the quick-thinking assistance that he provided to the distressed victim. There had only been eight confirmed shark attacks in Nassau County since 1882, according to the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File. Nassau County is approximately 150 miles north of Volusia County, which is considered to be the "shark bite capital of the world."There have been 351 confirmed shark attacks in Volusia County since 1882, including 17 bites in 2021. There were 16 shark attacks in the state of Florida last year, or 44% of all of the attacks in the entire United States and 23% of the worldwide total. In June, there were three swimmers who were attacked by sharks in two different incidents in the Gulf Coast of Florida. One woman had to have her arm amputated and suffered "critical injuries" to her hip in the shark attack that happened in Walton County – which is located in Florida's northwest panhandle. On the same day, two teenage girls were victims of a shark attack near Seacrest Beach, about four miles further east of the first attack. One of the girls suffered "significant injuries to the upper leg and one hand," while the other endured minor injuries on one of her feet, according to officials. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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