Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box

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Post by stclaus » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 12:32 PM UTC

Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
techcrunch.com

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Post by kgraves » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:00 PM UTC

1984 is not a business model.

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:01 PM UTC

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Post by ddalex » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:06 PM UTC

Hahahaha... how about no?!

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Post by mfer » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:06 PM UTC

kgraves wrote: post #2

1984 is not a business model.

I think numerous companies have show this to be untrue. It is a business model that can bring about great profits.

Is is a healthy business model for a society? I think most people would say no to that.

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Post by pesenti » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:11 PM UTC

More info about the underlying technology: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/smart-camera-portal-advances

More info about the privacy settings: https://portal.facebook.com/privacy/

Disclosure: I work at FB, my team developed the underlying MaskR-CNN technology.

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Post by 5trokerac3 » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:12 PM UTC

"Smith 6079W! Bend lower!"[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCfW6HFP5cI

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Post by markholmes » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

What demographic is this intended for?

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Post by notyourday » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

I really dig this sentence in the FB press release masquerading as a TechCrunch article:

"If you can get past the creepiness, the new Portal TV let you hang out with friends on your home’s biggest screen."

Lets see what else we can apply this kind of logic:

"If you can get past the creepiness of having that weirdo look at you naked, he can give you cookies! You do want cookies, right?"

The real fun, however, will be when some 5 year old is naked in front of that thing and Facebook employees and/or contractors end up watching it in the name of machine learning followed by the record of it showing up on Pornhub. Though maybe at that point "think of the children" finally gets some people to go to jail. Maybe by that time we get someone like Warren ( regardless how misguided she is in some other aspects ) be the POTUS and push through the jail time for executives.

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Post by jannes » Wed, Sep 18, 2019, 1:15 PM UTC

I'm sure lots of smart people spent a lot of time and effort working on this, but unfortunately my answer is: Hell no!