Even if it had gone perfectly, what would it have proved? That with the magic of AI, anyone can make Korean inspired barbecue sauce, as long as they are in a well-appointed kitchen that happens to have the right amount all the ingredients of Korean inspired barbecue sauce all laid out in front of them. I mean, if you know to go get all that stuff, you pretty much know how to make Korean inspired barbecue sauce already.
Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
Submitted 16 hours ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/27/zuckerberg-ai-glasses-fail
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Octavio@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 hour ago
Also there are zillions of recipes online that you can read or just have text-to-speech if you want them read to you… or you know… a youtube cooking video?
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Very good and entertaining article
To a layperson, at least, it seems that consumer technology has long since entered an era of solutions in search of problems – particularly troubling at a time when the world is facing so many genuinely intractable crises. As entertaining as it is to watch our tech overlords flounder on stage, it raises bigger questions, such as: who exactly asked for this, beyond the billionaires cashing in? And: can we just not?
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
“can we just not?”
I feel this deep in my soul. Every day. Multiple times a day.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
It’s bleak because of how hard this stuff is being pushed.
I got to laugh off the Metaverse because it flopped long before it could be forced down my throat. I looked askance at Crypto, but broadly avoided it without consequence. Now I’ve vendors injecting AI into their tech support service, and it isn’t something I can wave away anymore.
pinheadednightmare@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
And the nightmare just keeps getting worse and worse.
Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Especially because apparently we can’t not.
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 12 hours ago
I think of it as the Juicero era. Everything needs to be a subscription, with an app, selling your data and is barely functional. And in a society where the basics are getting more difficult. It’s like selling more convenience to people in the upper floors of the Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, while many people struggle to just get housing, heating, food and health.
TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Watching tech bros fumble their “revolutionary society changing tech!” while they look like fools is hysterical.
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They’re chasing that one moment in the early aughts when what they had actually blew peoples minds.
plenipotentprotogod@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
Time to quote Dan Olson again. This was originally written about NFTs, but just replace “crypto” with “AI” and it’s still 100% relevant:
When you drill down into it, you realize that the core of the crypto ecosystem … is a turf war between the wealthy and the ultra-wealthy. Techno fetishists who look at people like Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, billionaires that have been minted via tech industry doors that have now been shut by market calcification, and are looking for a do-over, looking to synthesize a new market where they can be the one to ascend from a merely wealthy programmer to a hyper wealthy industrialist.
From the incomparable line goes up
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2 hours ago
I wanted to comment on another post that had a video show how chatGPT screwed up a basic recipe live…
And now this. You know what this reminds me of? That incident back in the 90s when Bill Gates was presenting Windows 98 to the world and his OS bluescreened on live TV. No one who saw it or heard of it at that time ever forgot about it.
But the flaws of windows 98 were hammered out fairly quickly and it was a decent system (I hung onto it longer than most since it ran many 90s windows games much better than XP for obvious reasons).
With this? Despite far more money poured onto this than any OS ever had they have produced remarkably few decent results.
SabinStargem@lemmy.today 4 hours ago
Rule #868: As an Evil CEO, I will make a point of holding at least three rehearsals to prevent having egg on my face.
BanMe@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers’ homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 1 hour ago
The evil overlord list is eternal!
Karyoplasma@discuss.tchncs.de 16 hours ago
Talked to a guy recently that claimed ChatGPT has “an IQ of over 300”. Laughed hard, he got mad at me laughing.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ask him how many "R"s are in Strawberry
snooggums@piefed.world 15 hours ago
Look, two Rs is accurate as long as you accept that AI knows 'what you really mean' and you should have just prompted better.
circuscritic@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Ask the model to confirm the answer and it will correct itself, at least when I’ve tried that.
I’m sure there’s a mathematical or programmatic logic as to why, but seeing as I don’t need LLM’s to count letters, I’m not overly interested in it.
Regardless, I look forward to the bubble popping.
al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 12 hours ago
Tell him I too laughed at him out loud like a lunatic.
hotdogcharmer@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
God I wish this dork would fuck off already, along with the rest of the AI bullshit currently making investors and other business-wankers the world over cum themselves dry. It’s fucking embarrassing.
justsomeguy@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The last 5% aren’t a nice bonus. They are everything. A 95% self driving car won’t do. Giving me random hallucinations when I try to look up important information won’t do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can’t trust it.
Currently AI companies have no idea how to get there yet they sell the promise of it. Next year, bro. Just one more datacenter, bro.
Feyd@programming.dev 15 hours ago
People tell me the hallucinations aren’t a big deal because people should fact check everything.
- People aren’t fact checking
- If you have to fact check every single thing you’re not saving any time over becoming familiar with whatever the real source of info is
lobut@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
My friend told me that one of her former colleagues, wicked smart dude, was talking to her about space. Then he went off about how there were pyramids on Mars. She was like, “oh … I’m quite caught up on this stuff and I haven’t heard of this info. Where can I find this info?” The guy apparently has been having super long chats with whatever LLMand thinks that they’re now diving into the “truth” now.
brsrklf@jlai.lu 13 hours ago
Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you’ve got a new batch of idiots just “contributing” to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn’t even read themselves.
So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn’t ask for a LLM’s opinion, they’re like “what’s the problem? Is any of this wrong?” Because it’s entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
99% won’t do when the consequences of that last 1% are sever.
There’s more than one book on the subject, but all the cool kids were waving around their copies of The Black Swan at the end of 2008.
Seems like all the lessons we were supposed to learn about stacking risk behind financial abstractions and allowing business to self-regulate in the name of efficiency have been washed away, like tears in the rain.
snooggums@piefed.world 15 hours ago
99% won't do when the consequences of that last 1% are sever.
As an example, your whole post is great but I can't help but notice the one tiny typo that is like 1% of the letters. Heck, a lot of people probably didn't even notice just like they don't notice when AI returns the wrong results.
A multi billion dollar technical system should be far better than someone posting to the fediverse in their spare time, but it is far worse. Especially since those types of tiny errors will be fed back into future AI training and LLM design is not and never will be self correcting because it works with the data it has and it needs so much that it will always include scraped stuff.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 13 hours ago
won’t do either even if it just happens 1 out of 20 times. That one time could really screw me so I can’t trust it.
20 is also the number of times you go to work per month.
Now imagine crashing your car once every month…
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
At this point in his presentation, you might assume Zuckerberg would leave nothing to chance. But when it came time to demonstrate the Ray-Ban MetaDisplay’s unique new wristband, he opted against using slides and decided to try it live.
The wristband is what he called a “neural interface” – in a genuinely remarkable feat of technology, it allows you to type through minimal hand gestures, picking up on the electrical signals going through your muscles. “Sometimes you’re around other people and it’s, um, good to be able to type without anyone seeing,” Zuckerberg told the crowd. The pairing of glasses and wristband is, in short, a stalker’s dream.
Jesus christ.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
The pairing of glasses and wristband is, in short, a stalker’s dream.
Ha. The buyer thinks they are the stalker
e461h@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
The guy became a billionaire from a ‘hot or not’ college website…
IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 11 hours ago
The wristband is what he called a “neural interface” – in a genuinely remarkable feat of technology, it allows you to type through minimal hand gestures, picking up on the electrical signals going through your muscles.
That would be genuinely a piece of hardware I might adopt if it’s actually working as well as normal keyboard with touch typing. And obviously it has to work locally like any HID without sending everything I type to Zuck or someone else.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Sorry. All your data belong to zuck.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 hours ago
From all reports it works amazingly well.
fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 8 hours ago
Given what happened (it skipping to the next step in the recipe), this was 100% “prerecorded AI” and they started on the wrong track.
Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Oh a new kind of advanced glasses, does it zoom or auto adjust to your prescription?
Reads article
Wait are they seriously trying google glass again? Why is it always the solution looking for a problem people the same as the supply side people. They don’t understand demand is the real driver.
iopq@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Nobody had a demand for an iPhone before it was released. People just wanted a better Nokia
underisk@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
what? i absolutely wanted a cell phone with a decent web browser on it in 2007, are you high?
lime@feddit.nu 8 hours ago
yeah but nobody wanted google glass after it was release.
Plurrbear@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Maybe be can ask the twins for help since he stole their entire platform anyways lol! What a douche!
Etterra@discuss.online 12 hours ago
It made him look like an idiot, but the question is did it do that on purpose? or is it just worthless trash?
Telorand@reddthat.com 10 hours ago
If the stranglehold billionaires have on the world begins to diminish, I’ll start to suspect it’s been on purpose. Until then, they’re just fucking idiots who made worthless trash.
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
The keynote was to feature the Ray-Ban Meta Display, the latest version of what is essentially a face-mounted iPhone – ideal for the consumer who lacks the energy to pull a device from their pocket and idolizes both Buddy Holly and the Terminator.
What does Terminator have to do with any of this? Did they add the reference because Schwarzenegger wears sunglasses in the movies?
GargleBlaster@feddit.org 16 hours ago
The Terminator has a HUD that analyses what it sees in real time
SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 16 hours ago
Zuckerberg is also an evil android...
Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ah, yeah forgot about that one.
That wasn’t the glasses though, it was his eyes/cameras.
But makes sense.
Deflated0ne@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
He also wears sunglasses in the movie.
snooggums@piefed.world 15 hours ago
Since his HUD was internal it isn't a good comparison.
They Live had sunglasses with a 'heads up' display.
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 6 hours ago
Who cares how the presentations go when the hands on reports from the people who got to use them are pretty much in universal agreement that they’re a game changer.
Rooster326@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Game changer for who?
The surveillance state?
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 5 hours ago
No thanks.
db2@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Compared to him a pocket calculator is a superintelligence.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 13 hours ago
Greetings from Marvin the Paranoid Android.
‘Wearily, I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of course. And infinite sorrow.’
Fyrnyx@kbin.melroy.org 15 hours ago
Ha ha, what a lizard-faced fuckball.
Goretantath@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
HA!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
I do not understand why they simply don’t just copy Zuckerberg’s own AI. I know he isn’t 100% perfectly like a human, but still closer than this LLM shit. Is it the same problem as with Data in Star Trek and the person who built him died without leaving any notes?