Ultimately, it doesn't matter what he wants. It matters what his AI agents want. Maybe they'll decide to stick with his profit-maximization script. That alone could be enough to take civilization down with it. Or maybe they'll decide to do something more creative. Point is... it's not clear that releasing all those AI bots on people is a net positive for Meta or anyone.
Now beyond AI, the other major technology wave that we're focused on is the metaverse. A narrative has developed that we're somehow moving away from focusing on the Metaverse vision. So I just want to say upfront that, that's not accurate. We've been focusing on both AI and the Metaverse for years now, and we will continue to focus on both. The two areas are also related. Breakthrough in computer vision was what enabled us to ship the first stand-alone VR device.
Meta has led in the application of ML to computer vision for years now frankly. They have tons and tons of papers on computer vision using ML that are clearly and obviously applicable to metaverse-esque things.
(I have no stake in Meta in any form, just care about computer vision)
To ship the headset it had to be able to track it's position with submilimeter precision, with low jitter, in real time, and on cheap, mobile hardware, be able to track where controllers are, and be able to recognize existing rooms it's mapped before so it can restore the boundaries you've set up in the past. All of that was powered by computer vision. After the launch, hand tracking was another use of computer vision that was added.
The computer vision based room, hand and controller tracking of the Quest 2 is frankly pretty amazing. I don’t have experience with any other devices, but I was shocked how good it was after impulse buying a Quest 2 a while back. I hardly ever use it anymore, but the tracking seems to get better every time I plug in and update the device.
Mark is an interesting fellow. He says and claims a lot of things. However, we need to filter what he says, because people aren't perfect. However, he is too imperfect. Too much of what he says in garbage, so we need to avoid his discussions and reactions.
Comments are filled with snark. But I see 30% of the threads on this board being about AI lately. Facebook is a hugely powerful entity. Aren’t there some important discussions to be had about how these giant corporations choose to intermediate their empires with this new revolutionary tech? Cmon guys.
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But that's for govt to do.
There is no cost right now to keeping spamming ppl and constant incentive to collect data to provide better attention thieving services.
I look forward to the open source "ad block" AI bots that you can deploy to shield you from the scrapers and peddlers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsntlJZ9h1U
An AI powered cruise missile might not “want” to hurt you but can make you have the worst day ever.
Once you start believing you can reason with them it’s already too late…
it looks like there is an emerging market of protecting people from AI.
detecting AI-generated "content" in what is supposed to be essays or research papers or even books by a person maybe.
blocking yourself from AI-generated ads and marketing tricks, possibly also leveraging AI to do that
"prompt engineering" to monitor and detect if your content was stolen (sorry, trained on) by "AI"
etc
Love this the most haha
A human night tire of me asking too many questions or be unavailable after 5pm
Meta Intelligence... It really does very nicely encapsulate what FB is these days.
Facebook -> FB -> FB(I)
Meta Intelligence -> MI -> MI(6)
"introduce AI agents to billions of people"; yes, it checks out.
MS is already taken though. ;)
Pretty neat but, treat them nicely...
Is there any truth to this statement?
I suspect it's all just spin to avoid admitting that the whole metaverse thing was a huge waste of time and money.
(I have no stake in Meta in any form, just care about computer vision)
We shouldn’t conflate intelligence with being able to speak.
How long before “bot” is a derogatory term? “Umm, cheeky monkey, we prefer artificial person!”
This is going to be a great train wreck. Assume your seats kids and watch.
We don't need AIs. We need somebody to bad commercials for shitty stuff.