Meta AI Chief gives valuable advice to young teens, says learn from Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg

Meta chief AI officer Alexandr Wang has shared advice for young teens who want to be successful in the future. The 28 year old AI executive had earlier led Scale AI before Meta took a 49% stake in the AI startup.

Speaking at the TBPN podcast, Wang said that the current 13 year old's should follow the example of Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg to learn the new technology to have a ‘huge advantage’ in the future. Wang drew the parallels between the current AI age to the time when the personal computers came and said that the young adults may even have an edge over the adults.

“If you are like 13 years old, You should spend all your time coding and just, you know, that's how you live your life” he added

“I think it's actually in some ways an incredible moment of discontinuity where if you just happen to spend like 10,000 hours playing with the tools and figure out how to use them better than other people, that's a huge advantage” he further noted

Wang's advice to young adults is to spend all their time learning how to use the new AI tools and ‘vibe code’ new things with them. In case you aren't aware, vibe coding is a new approach to software development where developers use natural language prompts to get a product developed via an AI tool.

The term was cointed by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy with the idea that developers can use AI to "fully give in to the vibes" and “forget the code even exists.”

Notably, Wang became the youngest self-made billionare at the age of 25 by embracing the power of AI with his startup Scale AI that he had launched at the age of 19.

Earlier this year, Zuckerberg's Meta invested $14.3 billion in Scale AI which valued the startup at over $29 billion