Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg authored an op-ed piece that appeared in Wednesday’s New York Times, in which he opposed a U.S. ban on Chinese AI models. The man who revolutionized social networking with the creation of Facebook feels that AI can be same sort of revolutionary tool in human achievement and endorses less government restriction as the accelerant to making that possible. China and the United States, however, butt heads on seemingly every possible issue, and how to utilize the still-growing field of AI is no exception. Rich DeMuro is the host of “Rich on Tech”, heard Sunday nights from 8-11pm on WOR; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Curtis Sliwa and Larry Mentde in the Morning program to explain what he thinks are the pros and cons of each system.
DeMuro told Curtis and Larry that Zuckerberg feels the Chinese model is the one with fewer shackles holding back the burgeoning new technology: “He is very optimistic about AI. He thinks it is going to create jobs, create opportunities, not take away all these jobs and take away opportunities. He also thinks that people should be empowered to use this, and he does believe that a more open foundation of AI is a good thing. There’s two schools of thought there. Number one is you make all these models, and the big companies control them, and then of course the government controls what those big companies can do, and the second is that you just kind of put these out there as an open-source model and let people be the judge. Let them figure out what they can do with them.”
DeMuro also had good news for devoted fans of Apple products who won’t upgrade their devices because of the cost, as the iPhone maker announced a leasing plan that is similar to leasing a car: “So, you can now lease your iPhone, you can lease an Apple watch, you can lease a Mac computer, a tablet… you think about all these Apple products that they have; I think that the problem is, people are not upgrading enough, and I think that’s what Apple is trying to get around here by saying, ‘Hey look, let’s dangle this shiny new thing in front of you, it’s only $12 a month’ instead of people sticking with their phones for three or four years, which is what they’re doing.”
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