{"id":219347,"date":"2025-08-03T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/personal-superintelligence-a-lousy-video-illustrating-zuckerbergs-lousy-ai-memo"},"modified":"2025-08-03T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T17:16:08","slug":"personal-superintelligence-a-lousy-video-illustrating-zuckerbergs-lousy-ai-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/personal-superintelligence-a-lousy-video-illustrating-zuckerbergs-lousy-ai-memo","title":{"rendered":"Personal Superintelligence: A lousy video illustrating Zuckerberg\u2019s lousy AI memo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xdHgBeHxKoI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>So I took <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meta\">@meta<\/a> CEO Mark Zuckerberg blog post on\u2019superintelligence\u2019 aka #artificialgeneralintelligence from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meta.com\/superintelligence\/\">https:\/\/www.meta.com\/superintelligence\/<\/a> and generated an audio track using <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Descript\">@Descript<\/a> (no edits were made) and then created a \u2018data\u2019-like avatar (which is often compared to what Zuck used to look like::). Then I asked Descript to add some stock footage and generate captions\u2026 (again, no edits) and here we are.<\/p>\n<p>You can judge it for yourself, but here\u2019s what I think:<br \/> 1) Zuck\u2019s memo is\u2026 crap (sorry)<br \/> 2) The voiceover is decent but yes\u2026 crappily generic\u2026 and of course, it didn\u2019t allow me to use Z\u2019s voice or image.<br \/> 3) The stock footage used (I did not make ANY edits) is\u2026 crap (to call it generic would be generous)<br \/> 4) The cuts, layovers and transitions are\u2026crap.<\/p>\n<p>The result is crap. I hope you don\u2019t like it.<\/p>\n<p>Note: This is NOT by any means a comment on the power of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Descript\">@Descript<\/a>\u2019s AI editing platform which I really like and constantly use, and definitely recommend. But it\u2019s not a miracle machine:)<br \/> To see what Descript can do if you put real effort into it, go here: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/AEKtY7F5Z0Q?si=pIYoqoms7PfMukoo\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/AEKtY7F5Z0Q?si=pIYoqoms7PfMukoo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rather, it shows that mindlessness, lazyness, and effortlessness creates SLOP. As creators, we must resist using these tools without serious editing, questioning and curating. #thehumanresistance.<\/p>\n<p>The summary below was also written by AI:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/personal-superintelligence-a-lousy-video-illustrating-zuckerbergs-lousy-ai-memo\">Continue reading \u201cPersonal Superintelligence: A lousy video illustrating Zuckerberg\u2019s lousy AI memo\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I took @meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg blog post on\u2019superintelligence\u2019 aka #artificialgeneralintelligence from https:\/\/www.meta.com\/superintelligence\/ and generated an audio track using @Descript (no edits were made) and then created a \u2018data\u2019-like avatar (which is often compared to what Zuck used to look like::). Then I asked Descript to add some stock footage and generate captions\u2026 (again, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}