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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?

Google exists. Finding recipes that give specific flavor profiles is not hard to find.

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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?

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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Yes, the mocking, gleeful negativity really does make me concerned that this place is becoming Reddit. The fact that the highest upvoted post on this thread is just a link to Reddit isn't doing much to help me feel better. And I've been here for at least a decade, so I don't think this is the noob illusion.

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> the people funding the anti-AI movement

You can't be serious.

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Ok, you’ve piqued my interest. What’s required in order for something to be genuinely confused?

The ability to think. If it can't think in the first place, it can't get confused. Whether it's "real AI" or not depends on semantics of that you consider AI to be: * If you think it's something that resembles intelligence enough to be useful in the same way intelligence is and to seem to be intelligence, this is clearly it. The "plant based meats" of AI. * If you think it means actual intelligence that was manufactu…

You're just moving the question from "confused" to "think", and I think you're also conflating "to be confused" (which was what I said) with "to feel confused" (which is a whole other thing.)

I guess my definition of 'to be confused' is something like 'to have a significant mismatch between your model and reality', so yeah, you could argue that a PID controller is "confused" by a workload with significant inertia. And 'to feel confused' would be 'to identify a significant mismatch between your model and reality', of which clearly a PID controller is not capable, but most multicellular life forms are.

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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?

Any decade now.

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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?

Google exists. Finding recipes that give specific flavor profiles is not hard to find.

Using a recipe = being told how to make something.

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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.

I’m a Millennial and I’m no lizardman, thank you very much.

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It's well known Meta AI is shit. But I could probably make an app that can run this demo in an afternoon. The glasses part here is insane and I don't know why everyone is fixated on the tacky AI part. It's like if I invented the car and you complained that it's really hard to crank the windows down. Be happy it's even there!

Probably because we've seen goofy-looking AI glasses before.

Google Glass was released in 2013, the Snapchat Spectacles date back to 2016. Meta's glasses might be better (at first glance, I honestly can't tell), but they aren't some kind of revolutionary product we have never seen before.

The innovative part here is supposed to be the AI demo. That clearly flopped. So what's supposed to be left?

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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,…

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What an awful, condescending attitude. No, not "everyone living in a modern country" can make Korean food without a recipe. And tools that reduce the barrier for learning and acquiring new skills should be applauded. Almost half of Americans cannot cook today. And the number 1 cited reason is a lack of time. That said, I agree with the grandparent that this isn't really a "killer feature". Nor am I interested in the…

A real example that would have resonated was asking “what can I make with these ingredients?” No one is asking how to make a specific thing when they already know exactly what ingredients they need. If they knew what ingredients they needed, they probably already had the recipe. It feels out of touch at a basic level.
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