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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 32 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Not sure that, "sorry, we botched our entire tech demo because we couldn't get the router working," is a better explanation.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Apparently they DDoSed themselves. They broadcast the verbal instruction "OK Meta" on a closed network with hundreds of meta AI users.

[–] wasabi@feddit.org 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I still don't see how that would explain that the AI gave the wrong answer. It would make more sense if the AI gave no answer.

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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago

That excuse where supposedly the meta glasses connect to any random server available in the network without even a warning seems even worse, it's a huge security issue if true

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[–] Denjin@feddit.uk 126 points 5 days ago (16 children)

Even if this worked perfectly, ignoring the fact that it's clearly setup for the camera to recognise certain things and is in no way a genuine demonstration, what is the point of this? By the time it's even responded to his first "Hey meta" he could have typed "korean steak sauce recipe" into his search engine of choice and got back several dozen decent results in seconds.

What is the problem that these LLMs and chatbots are the solution for? It's like they're all desperately trying to market some fancy new type of barely functioning legs to everyone when we already have legs, and arms, and cars, and bicycles.

[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 54 points 5 days ago (8 children)

That’s not the point. He’s planning to harvest data about the environment in your home (what products you have around you, which brands do you prefer, etc) for better ad targeting and whatnot.

I guarantee that a lot of people will use it; and not because it does a great job, but out of curiosity, peer pressure, or abject laziness.

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[–] SoupBrick@pawb.social 148 points 5 days ago (1 children)

"I think the WIFI might be messed up."

Bro, I think the AI might be messed up. You don't get instructions to grate a pear when a device cannot connect to the internet.

[–] primrosepathspeedrun@anarchist.nexus 23 points 5 days ago (7 children)

Clearly youve never used my fridge.

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[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 112 points 5 days ago (3 children)

What surprises me isn't that AI failed, what surprises me is that Zuckerberg believes in his own hyping of AI so much he had the confidence to try to do this at all, live, unstaged. Is this courage, honesty, stupidity, hubris?

The most favourable explanation I can think of is that they tried it out ahead of the presentation, it worked well enough, so they trusted it could be repeated.

[–] dalekcaan@feddit.nl 69 points 5 days ago

Same energy

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 42 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I just don't know how many times these billionaires have to prove that deep down they're just dumb asses at heart until people get the message

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 18 points 5 days ago

they surround themselves with sycophants thier whole lives, to avoid the uncomfortable possibility that someone says they are wrong.

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago

Yes, I would have expected him to go full on Mechanical Turk.

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 86 points 5 days ago (9 children)

God that's so awkward, the super long pauses before it can even start replying, the horrible robot voice it has, and them both trying to pretend it's a wifi issue lmao.

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[–] taxon@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)

A classic example of realworld AI implementation. I wonder how many times they rehearsed the cooking scene before deciding it was never going to work.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It probably worked fine earlier. Or they wouldn’t have done it

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 days ago (1 children)

yeah, they probably had a system prompt setup to make sure it responded appropriately, something like, we're about to make a japanese BBQ sauce from the ingredients on the table, when we ask about it, use the camera to look at and remark about the ingredients on the table.

But AI distills noise, and it has memory so it probably just mashed the gas this time. The part where it was supposed to recognise his actions was smoke and mirrors. It's fine at telling what's on the table, it's bad at recognising what he's doing.

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[–] brachiosaurus@mander.xyz 42 points 4 days ago (5 children)

You are all falling for meta advertising, if it wasn't for this mishap nobody would know they are releasing a new product

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I still dont know what they are doing other than making themselves look like idiots.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 19 points 4 days ago

what's the product again?

oh right, it's you.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

Making his product look stupid twice in the same event seems like a bold marketing strategy....

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[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Nah zuckerboot is legit angry. Everybody knows of meta glasses already and now they know they don't work.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

How did we get here? How did computers go from a tool to solve real problems to becoming this useless, silly distraction?

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[–] INeedMana@piefed.zip 42 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I wonder if botched demos are not starting to become intentional. In the end, the more people talk about something, the more successful that marketing action is, right?

[–] ideonek@piefed.social 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I hate it. There is no dumb enought thing, that billioners can do to prove that are truly dumb, without people giving them benefits of playing 4-dimensional chess. The king truly is naked.

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[–] kalistia@sh.itjust.works 45 points 5 days ago
[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Smokin' some brisket with the Sweet Baby Ray's

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Ugh every time I see a bottle I remember the fuck face saying it goddamn it get him out of my brain

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

The wifi is messing up 😅

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 20 points 4 days ago

I see Mark Cuckberg has become an adept of the "BSoD in front of everyone", now that Microsoft no longer does that. Remember that metaverse marketing?

Im a little confused, how is this new tech? Also how is it so bad? Couldn’t Siri and basically every phone now do a better job at what he’s trying to do?

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 42 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Why is he so weirdly obsessed with BBQ sauce?

[–] brandon@piefed.social 34 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

What do you mean? People love barbeque sauce. There's nothing more normal and human than barbeque sauce. Biological human beings are natural barbeque sauce enthusiasts.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 26 points 5 days ago

Sauce is the true litmus test of civilization

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[–] tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

The irony of LLMs is they try to solve the problem of making information easier to retrieve, which was made harder by SEO'd sites that bury the information you need halfway through the page under the history of the author's great grandmother's chicken sauce recipe.

Also, why didn't they just fucking record this in advance?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You'd think they script this and test it a couple of times before showing it to the press. If they can't manage to do that, maybe the hundreds of billions of investments into their AI program are a teeny tiny bit misplaced.

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[–] nonentity@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Ridiculing slopvangelical LLM thumpers is the only valid response.

No one who truly understands how computing works can legitimately argue what played out in this video was the result of ‘bad Wi-Fi’.

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"How do I make a Korean inspired marinade?"

"I see you have already opened the hood, now check the v-belt"

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago

I laughed so hard at the pre-recorded demo where the guy interrupts his friend in the middle of the conversation in order to talk to his glasses. You can tell how wildly out of touch the billionaire and executives are who approved this product...

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