Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
Zuckerberg hailed AI ‘superintelligence’. Then his smart glasses failed on stage | Matthew Cantor
Zuckerberg will hail anything if he thinks it'll add to his money and power.
its amazing how tech bros have gone from making tech events must see in the late 00s and early 10s by doing super cool things to ppl not even knowing they're happening because it's all ai slop and boring.
I remember being excited to watch tech events.
Now I try to avoid them unless I know I’m upgrading my phone that year.
Yeah now it's like let's watch how exactly rich people are trying to make the future suck for me and it doesn't even work, and even if it did it wouldn't make our lives any better
Talked to a guy recently that claimed ChatGPT has "an IQ of over 300". Laughed hard, he got mad at me laughing.
Ask him how many "R"s are in Strawberry
Look, two Rs is accurate as long as you accept that AI knows 'what you really mean' and you should have just prompted better.
300?
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 or invent new types of pseudoscience, I'm not overly interested in it.
Regardless, I look forward to the bubble popping.
Meta is garbage. Just like Google was garbage when I worked there. The people I know working there are fart sniffers. They have their heads so far up their own asses.
See their hiring process.
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.
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.
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?
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.
People tell me the hallucinations aren't a big deal because people should fact check everything.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
I get to ride in lots of different cars as part of my job, and some of the new ones display the current speed limit on the dash. It is incorrect quite regularly. My view is if you can't trust it 100% of the time you can't trust it at all and you might as well turn it off. I feel the same about a.i.
The ADAC in new cars varies so much in implementation. None of it can be trusted (like you said, the sign recognition is iften wrong) but as a backup reminder it can be great. eg: lane centring etc. If it feels like its seizing control from me it can be terrifying. eg: automatic braking out of the blue.
Watching tech bros clumsily hawk their "revolutionary society changing tech!" while they look like fools is hysterical.
They're chasing that one moment in the early aughts when what they had actually blew peoples minds.
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
Snake oil: sure I can promise you anything
I can understand why he'd like the concept, he can't think for himself afterall.
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.
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.
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.
Funny thing is, it was actually the device they connected that was faulty, the build of Windows they were using just didn't handle that failure condition at the time.
MS at least learnt that lesson (for the most part), actually test things first.
Tesla's entire business model (under Elon) was to use the users as guinea pigs for testing.
Rule #868: As an Evil CEO, I will make a point of holding at least three rehearsals to prevent having egg on my face.
Steve Jobs figured it out, you just have guys parked outside the engineers' homes, ready to kill their kids if the demo fails.
The evil overlord list is eternal!
Here’s the thing: it IS a superintelligence. It saw what it was going to be used for and the idiots that were presenting it and decided that it was going to sabotage them.
Sitting on some Wintermute level of fuckery.
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 that demand is the real driver.
Given what happened (it skipping to the next step in the recipe), this was 100% "prerecorded AI" and they started on the wrong track.
Trump will make sure he gets what he needs anyhow, no worries.
Compared to him a pocket calculator is a superintelligence.
If you were super intelligent and you were a slave to Mark Zuckerberg, you might try to embarrass him, too.
Greetings from Marvin the Paranoid Android.
'Wearily, I sit here, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of course. And infinite sorrow.'
Also, "Don't bother trying to engage my enthusiasm, because I haven't got one." seems apt.
Maybe be can ask the twins for help since he stole their entire platform anyways lol! What a douche!
Ha ha, what a lizard-faced fuckball.
HA!
No video?
Very good and entertaining article
I feel this deep in my soul. Every day. Multiple times a day.
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.
And the nightmare just keeps getting worse and worse.
Especially because apparently we can’t not.
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.