That's my takeaway as well, and this is his new pivot, from VR to AR. Facebook's problem is that it has all of the money and no idea what to do with it, but instead of sitting on a hoard like Apple they've taken the unusual approach of powering their servers with piles of burning $100 bills.
Personally I suspect that if they really try to replace mid-levels with "AI", they're going to have to re-hire the mid-levels as members of a new field: "AI mistake-checker/fixer". They'll have to pay for the AI (which is resource intensive) and the human worker to fix the AI mess. Everyone wins?
Personally I suspect that if they really try to replace mid-levels with "AI", they're going to have to re-hire the mid-levels as members of a new field: "AI mistake-checker/fixer". They'll have to pay for the AI (which is resource intensive) and the human worker to fix the AI mess. Everyone wins?