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No, but have you seen what people are like when they react negatively? Their behavior is angry and aggressive and unpredictable. What needs to be explained is a group of people predictably all acting exactly the same way.

You're seeing conspiracies where there are none. A group of people all acting the same way is not suspicious when their actions are the thing that groups them together .

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No, but have you seen what people are like when they react negatively? Their behavior is angry and aggressive and unpredictable. What needs to be explained is a group of people predictably all acting exactly the same way.

You're seeing conspiracies where there are none. A group of people all acting the same way is not suspicious when their actions are the thing that groups them together .

Your theory that there's an invisible hand that makes everyone spontaneously act the same is nonsensical. It hasn't been observed in humans nor in the wider animal kingdom.

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Quick question: if there is a paid anti-AI movement, where do I send my invoice? May as well not leave money on the table.

I love this

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But, I mean… it’s just not good. There is no real way to spin this as anything better than embarrassing.

But why even have a conversation at all? Who cares if Zuckerberg has a demo that goes awry? Does that satisfy your intellectual curiosity somehow? It certainly doesn't satisfy mine.

I mean, I think it is notable that a massive tech company is blowing tens to hundreds of billions on this complete nonsense.

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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.

Wave was extremely cool and I wish it had stuck around. Hope it was as fun for you to work on as it was for us to use.

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

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post #323

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But, I mean… it’s just not good. There is no real way to spin this as anything better than embarrassing.

But why even have a conversation at all? Who cares if Zuckerberg has a demo that goes awry? Does that satisfy your intellectual curiosity somehow? It certainly doesn't satisfy mine.

Most of the discussion here is about (i) what might have gone wrong, technically, and (ii) what this says about the ROI that Facebook and other US tech giants are getting on their AI projects.

I agree that one demo gone awry does not mean much in itself, but the comments here do rise above the level of Nelson Muntz.

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The Kotaku article on this had a really nice final zinger[0]: > Oh, and here’s Jack Mancuso making a Korean-inspired steak sauce in 2023. > https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cn248pLDoZY/?utm_source=ig_em... 0: https://kotaku.com/meta-ai-mark-zuckerberg-korean-steak-sauc...

And the whole pear in the recipe situation was also hilarious :)

> And the whole pear in the recipe situation was also hilarious

The fact that the pear was in the recipe, or that the AI didn’t handle that situation around the pear well?

Asian pears are a common ingredient in beef marinades/sauces in Korea. It adds sweetness and (iirc) helps tenderize the meat when in a marinade.

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> Meanwhile almost no one from my peer group or relatives uses voice activated anything really, no voice mails, no voice controls, no voice assistants. And I never see people on the streets doing that too. Could also be that however your peer group uses things, isn't the only way that thing gets used? For example, voice messages seems more popular than texting around me right now, at least in Europe and Asia, where p…

Why you wouldn't just transcribe your message (which most keyboards and messengers support) instead of sending minutes worth of meandering audio full of "uhm" is beyond me. I use voice all the time (assistants, LLM, etc.) but voice messages can die in a fire.

I agree with you that voice messages can die in a fire. Send a text, or call. I do not want to listen to a voice message.
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