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Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by snypher »

lifthrasiir wrote: post #87

One important thing to note: demo didn't fail! (Or, at least not in the way people usually think of) > You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce. This is actually the correct Korean recipe for bulgogi steak sauce. The only missing piece here is that the pear has to be Pyrus pyrifolia [1], not the usual pear. In fact every single Korean watching the demo was complaining abou…

Maybe I'm missing something; there was no mention of what base ingredients or how to combine them?!

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Post by lifthrasiir »

snypher wrote: post #91
lifthrasiir wrote: post #87

One important thing to note: demo didn't fail! (Or, at least not in the way people usually think of) > You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce. This is actually the correct Korean recipe for bulgogi steak sauce. The only missing piece here is that the pear has to be Pyrus pyrifolia [1], not the usual pear. In fact every single Korean watching the demo was complaining abou…

Maybe I'm missing something; there was no mention of what base ingredients or how to combine them?!

In my understanding the demo was halted because of the apparently non-sensical recipe, but I wanted to say that that recipe was indeed correct.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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lifthrasiir wrote: post #87

One important thing to note: demo didn't fail! (Or, at least not in the way people usually think of) > You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce. This is actually the correct Korean recipe for bulgogi steak sauce. The only missing piece here is that the pear has to be Pyrus pyrifolia [1], not the usual pear. In fact every single Korean watching the demo was complaining abou…

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Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by zelphirkalt »

twothreeone wrote: post #37
fluoridation wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God, that's actually painful to watch. I can't believe I lasted two minutes.

Mark's definitely mastered optimizing for peak cringe factor while at 1.95T valuation.

They just need an emotionless android without conscience, who does whatever is in the best interest of raking in money. They don't need technological excellence. Whether people at his company technologically succeed or fail, what matters is, that the company processes all the PII and feeds the algorithms. The rest is just for show.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by jncfhnb »

SpicyLemonZest wrote: post #59
tkamado wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Live demos being hard isn't an excuse for cheating.

Despite the Reddit post's title, I don't think there's any reason to believe the AI was a recording or otherwise cheated. (Why would they record two slightly different voice lines for adding the pear?) It just really thought he'd combined the base ingredients.

It seems extremely likely that they took the context awareness out of the actual demo and had the AI respond to pre defined states and then even that failed.

The AI analyzing the situation is wayyy out of scope here

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by danpalmer »

blinding-streak wrote: post #79

Everything is always so cringe with Facebook and Zuck. It was always doomed to fail.

It's because Zuck doesn't actually believe in anything. Zuck's values, politics, and business goals change with the wind so everything that stems from them feels empty, because it's missing the true drive.

In contrast, nothing Steve Jobs said felt empty, whether we agreed or disagreed with what he was saying it was clear that he was saying it because he believed it, not because it's what he thought you wanted to hear.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by jncfhnb »

smelendez wrote: post #50
patrickhogan1 wrote: post #44

Credit where it’s due: doing live demos is hard. Yesterday didn’t feel staged—it looked like the classic “last-minute tweak, unexpected break.” Most builders have been there. I certainly have (I once spent 6 hours at a hackathon and broke the Flask server keying in a last minute change on the steps of the stage before going on).

Yeah, I just watched it again and I’m mostly confused why the guy interrupted what sounded like a valid response. I wonder if his audio was delayed? Or maybe the response wasn’t what they rehearsed and he was trying to get it on track?

It was reading step 2 and he was trying to get it to do step 1.

He had not yet combined the ingredients. The way he kept repeating his phrasing it seems likely that “what do we do first” was a hardcoded cheat phrase to get it to say a specific line. Which it got wrong.

Probably for a dumb config reason tbh.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by deadbabe »

ajcp wrote: post #78
crooked-v wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Live Apple demos were always held together with duct tape in the first place. That first "live" iPhone demo had a memorized sequence that Jobs needed to use to keep the whole phone OS from hard crashing.

During that first iPhone demo they also had a portable cell tower (cell on wheels) just off-stage to mimic a better signal strength than it was capable of. NYTimes write-up on the whole thing is worth the read [0]. 0. https://web.archive.org/web/20250310045704/https://www.nytim...

There was one demo where Steve Jobs told everyone to turn off their WiFi.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by jonplackett »

pera wrote: post #2

There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck: https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...

This is the best thing I’ve seen ever. It makes me so happy I can’t even tell you.

Re: Meta’s live demo fails; “AI” recording plays before the actor takes the steps

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Post by pixelpoet »

chrisweekly wrote: post #75
fluoridation wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's kind of like Peep Show, where the writers tried to engineer the most awkward social situations, only without the jokes.

Tangent: if you like cringey social awkwardness comedy (not my usual cup of tea, but in this case it's extraordinary, and hilarious), try "I Think You Should Leave". "Brian's Hat" is the 1st one I saw and maybe the best: https://youtu.be/LO2k-BNySLI?si=qEX7STkSOeCVZtK- Also "Hot Dog Car" https://youtu.be/WLfAf8oHrMo?si=jz5EKwjJZm1UMZau

Nathan for You is almost physically painful to watch, the cringe is so intense I can only take a few seconds at a time.
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