Billions of people will be using AI agents to automate their lives in five years, Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has claimed. People will create artificial intelligent systems that can take care of their lives throughout the day without them having to ask them, he suggested. The remarks came after Meta – the parent company of Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp – reported its latest results. They showed that they had spent vast amounts of money on AI technology, despite any clear positive results so far, and led to the company's share price plunging. In the new results, Meta Platforms reported a 91 per cent drop in second-quarter free cash flow.