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post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also a tangent, but Microsoft was the OG for corporate cringe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cX4t5-YpHQ

Developers developers developers developers!

One of the best mashups on youtube came from this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE

Enjoy. :)

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

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I don't think it was rigged.

Having claude run the browser and then take a screenshot to debug gives similar results. It's why doing so is useless even though it would be so very nice if it worked.

Somewhere in the pipeline, they get lazy or ahead of themselves and just interpret what they want to in the picture they see. They want to interpet something working and complete.

I can imagine it's related the same issue with LLMs pretending tests work when they don't. They're RL trained for a goal state and sometimes pretending they reached the goal works.

It wasn't the wifi - just genAI doing what it does.

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

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

OT, but thanks for linking to old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. The new interface is an abomination.

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

#114

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…

Why are you comparing 2000s Steve Jobs to Zuck?

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

#115

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).

Live demos are especially hard when you're selling snake oil.

Yeah. Everyone wants to be like Steve but forgets that he usually had something amazing to show off.

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

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

robozuck was also having wifi problems

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

#119

It's an ad network with an attached optional pair of glasses. It's the platform Zuck always wanted to own but never had the vision beyond 'it's an ad platform with some consumer stuff in it'. I am super impressed with the hardware (especially the neural band) but it just so happens that a very pricey car is being directly sold by an oil company as a trojan horse. We all know what the car is for unfortunately. I can't…

Sad thing is that even those who won’t buy it will have their privacy infringed upon. We’re all Zucked

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

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That wasn't prerecorded, but it was rigged. They probably practiced a few times and it confused the AI. Still it's no excuse. They've dropped Apollo-program level money on this and it's still dumb as a rock. I'm endless amazed that Meta has a ~2T market cap, yet they can't build products.

I don't think it was pre-recorded exactly, but I do think they built something for the demo that responded to specific spoken phrases with specific scripted responses.

I think that's why he kept saying exactly "what do I do first" and the computer responded with exactly the same (wrong) response each time. If this was a real model, it wouldn't have simply repeated the exact response and he probably would have tried to correct it directly ("actually I haven't combined anything yet, how can I get started").

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