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Oct 1, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence

Meta CTO: AI Shifts from Direct Manipulation to Intent Understanding, AGI Still Far Off

Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth argues AI is shifting from direct manipulation to intent understanding, emphasizes interaction quality over benchmark scores, details Muse's design including visual avatars and counter-arguments, describes private processing with trusted execution environments, expresses skepticism about near-term AGI and AI consciousness, and supports open-source AI with distilled models like Muse Glimmer.