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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.

The demo was halted because when the AI was asked how to start, it kept assuming that some of the process was already complete and was jumping to the middle of the process (indicating that it was incorrectly analysing the scene).

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This is what it has come to? This is artificial intelligence? Billions and billions of dollars spent to narrate a recipe? Something that can be written down on a piece of paper?

i always wonder why they choose the stupidest shit for these demos. like, to whom do they think they're advertising this?

They don’t want to spend 30 min explaining domain knowledge required to understand a certain super specific case.

Instead they show tech’s quality on a basic highest common denominator use case and allow people to extrapolate to their cases.

Similarly car ads show people going from home to a store (or to mountains). You’re not asking there “but what if I want to go to a cinema with the car”. If it can go to a store, it can go to a cinema, or any other obscure place, as long as there is a similar road getting there.

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This is what it has come to? This is artificial intelligence? Billions and billions of dollars spent to narrate a recipe? Something that can be written down on a piece of paper?

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> A Korean tasting dressing. It's 2025, anyone living in a modern country should probably be able to make something that tastes Korean with just a small amount of effort...

Lol are you serious?

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

This is what it has come to? This is artificial intelligence? Billions and billions of dollars spent to narrate a recipe? Something that can be written down on a piece of paper?

People used exactly the same argument to negate a need for the internet and later for the mobile phones.

https://www.newsweek.com/clifford-stoll-why-web-wont-be-nirv...

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

It's funny because he spent so much money on hair and clothing stylists, jewellery, BJJ coaching, surfing lessons , really made an effort to come across as "cool" and the end result is...you cannot fake who you are, and your actions are what define you and make up your character, he is prime example of that. He cannot escape who he is.

> He cannot escape who he is.

One of the best CEOs in the world with about 20 years of experience at age 40? And also founded the company?

He’s doing pretty good. And if you’re talking about “image” he is a millennial archetype.

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/...

This is what it has come to? This is artificial intelligence? Billions and billions of dollars spent to narrate a recipe? Something that can be written down on a piece of paper?

Hey, that recipe is worth trillions of dollars of investment, the destruction of the natural environment and the displacement of huge numbers of talented and skilled people. Show some respect for our billionaire class.

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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…

Surely this is the end of Zuck?

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I was going to say that’s two minutes I won’t get back (and I won’t) but, ya know, schadenfreude.

Here's one of my favorites, of Lars doing the Wave dance on stage to ad-lib over connectivity hiccups. For some reason it evoked a lot more empathy from me... https://youtu.be/v_UyVmITiYQ?t=19m35s

I was on the Wave team! Our servers didn't have enough capacity, we launched too soon. I was managing the developer-facing server for API testing, and I had to slowly let developers in to avoid overwhelming it.
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