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Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer
The CEO of Meta says "the average American has fewer than three friends, fewer than three people they would consider friends. And the average person has demand for meaningfully more.”
For a little over an hour, podcaster Dwarkesh Patel sets Zuckerberg up to say whatever he wants sans-pushback, with a series of layup questions for the CEO of one of the largest tech companies in the world. He said he thinks things like AI companions have a “stigma” around them now, but that society will eventually “find the vocabulary” to describe why people who turn to chatbots for socialization are “rational” for doing so. In 2021, that extra-special CEO taste drove Zuckerberg to rename his company Meta, short for metaverse, which he believed was the inevitable future of all life online: “an embodied internet where you’re in the experience, not just looking at it,” he wrote at the time.
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