Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta announced on Monday that it has created a machine – among the fastest artificial intelligence (AI) supercomputers running today – which it hopes to lay the groundwork for its building of the metaverse, a virtual reality construct intended to replace the internet.
The social media giant said the computer known as AI Research SuperCluster (RSC), is already in the top five AI machines in the world and would become the fastest supercomputers when fully built in the next few months.
By mimicking the underlying architecture of the brain in computer form, AI is capable of processing vast amounts of data and spot patterns in it.
Zuckerberg underscored in his post on Facebook that the enormous computing power is required for the experiences they’re building for the metaverse, referring to his idea of a 3D internet where users create an immersive experience by donning VR headsets and sensor equipment.
The US tech giant Meta said the array of machines – aimed to boost its capacity to process data – with 6,080 graphics processing units packaged into 760 Nvidia A100 modules, could process images and video up to 20 times faster than their current systems.
It will help its AI researchers build new and improved AI models that can learn from trillions of examples and simultaneously work across hundreds of different languages to analyze text, images, and video together.
Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and the WhatsApp messaging service, also envisages developing AI tools that will, among other things, allow people to understand each other in real-time by speaking in several different languages.
Considering the fact that platforms like Facebook – which generates significant amounts of data from its 2.8 billion daily users – and Google have long been criticized for the way they process and utilize their users’ data, critics and organizations such as European Digital Rights, a network of NGOs campaigning for big tech to be reined in, are already questioning what the firm might do with such a powerful tool.
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