I feel like this is a subtle attempt to move the goalposts on what is meant by AGI. Regardless of whether the final product is truly an AGI (and I'm guessing it won't be) my guess is that it will be branded as such.
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#63> Mark Zuckerberg’s new goal is creating artificial general intelligence So...what happened to that whole "Metaverse" thing? Is it time to rename the company again?
Meta's AR/VR strategy is still the over-arching priority and given how well Quest 3 and Ray Bans glasses are doing shows that it is likely the right one. Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry. AI will be used to enhance that e.g. generated avatars, autonomous agents, hand/body tracking etc.
> Especially once Apple Vision Pro ignites the industry.
Ah, yes, the inevitability of Apple success.
Just as everyone switched from cell phones to PDAs after 1993.
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Man, the Metaverse... what a fad. I almost can't even believe that WAS a thing. We had Habbo, and then we had Second Life, and NOW!!!!!!.... * deafening silence *
How is it a defeaning silence? Their latest hardware product was released ~3 months ago.
Metaverse != Meta headset
The promise of the former is a unified platform where e.g. a virtual magic sword bought in an RPG also works in an FPS made by an unrelated developer, and a virtual gun bought in the later also works in the former, and this is also your work collaboration environment. And now I'm thinking of ABK's boss fight sketch: https://youtu.be/w6u_EJa_sZE?si=wlYD8EhRd_PLm39l
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How much does one need to go after crypto currencies vulnerable to a 51% attack?
Oh man if Elon had billions in H100s we might actually see that happen. And I’m no fan of Elon but I’m also no fan of cryptocurrency these days. Might be worth it just to watch the crypto world burn.
A successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency would not necessarily be that impactful. So what if Elon can doublespend? He would need a lot of crypto, a counterparty, and the strong desire to waste money. Large miners could already collude to do it, it just is not in their interest.
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Oh man if Elon had billions in H100s we might actually see that happen. And I’m no fan of Elon but I’m also no fan of cryptocurrency these days. Might be worth it just to watch the crypto world burn.
A successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency would not necessarily be that impactful. So what if Elon can doublespend? He would need a lot of crypto, a counterparty, and the strong desire to waste money. Large miners could already collude to do it, it just is not in their interest.
I’m wondering if there would be enough FUD to crash one coin’s value. And then if one falls perhaps more could.
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#68Say what you want about Facebook, the size of their dataset and computational resources definitely make them competitive, and their data science and ML teams have been always top notch. I think the Verge is missing the mark with the headline and general focus of the article. "Building AGI" is whatever, like half the companies with enough GPUs are claiming that and AGI is like more poorly-defined than "metaverse". The more interesting point seems to be this general incoherence with building chatbots and trying to run a social media company.
>Meta is still a metaverse company. It’s the biggest social media company in the world. It’s now trying to build AGI. Zuckerberg frames all this around the overarching mission of “building the future of connection.”
This is such "Verge" writing. I'm by no means bearish on VR, but that whole passage is so unreflective and uncritical it's almost a satire of journalistic fluff. Chatbots that fill social media with greater and greater amounts of garbage content is just a nightmare. Bot content is already one of the reasons people are retreating into groupchats. The blurring of AI and human interaction leads to accountability problems. Hell, Snapchat and Discord basically already tried this to enormous backlash. The fact that this is entirely antagonistic with "building the future of connection" goes essentially unacknowledged.
There is something interesting with the fact that Facebook is more open to open-source, this is fairly credible actually given the quality and quantity of the company's open-source contributions. But I genuinely think LLMs are most useful as an applied technology, and the applications listed here are frankly uninspiring.
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A successful 51% attack on a major cryptocurrency would not necessarily be that impactful. So what if Elon can doublespend? He would need a lot of crypto, a counterparty, and the strong desire to waste money. Large miners could already collude to do it, it just is not in their interest.
I’m wondering if there would be enough FUD to crash one coin’s value. And then if one falls perhaps more could.
FUD of what? That some rich fool out there is double spending, and you of all people would be the counterparty?
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#70...rendering every competitor's massive investments worthless. Zuckerberg's thinking must be that Meta's competitors are more susceptible to disruption by broadly accessible AGI, and that if everyone has access to state-of-the-art AGI, then no one will be able to gain a new kind of competitive advantage from it.
Like in the dystopian Ready Player One, humans move to the VR world and who has the biggest investments in VR as of now?
And what are those investments worth? Quests have great quality with nearly no-profit price and who uses it. Their Horizon platform that even employees hate.