How did we get here? How did computers go from a tool to solve real problems to becoming this useless, silly distraction?

Im a little confused, how is this new tech? Also how is it so bad? Couldn’t Siri and basically every phone now do a better job at what he’s trying to do?

The irony of LLMs is they try to solve the problem of making information easier to retrieve, which was made harder by SEO'd sites that bury the information you need halfway through the page under the history of the author's great grandmother's chicken sauce recipe.

Also, why didn't they just fucking record this in advance?

Not sure that, "sorry, we botched our entire tech demo because we couldn't get the router working," is a better explanation.

Smokin' some brisket with the Sweet Baby Ray's

The wifi is messing up 😅

A classic example of realworld AI implementation. I wonder how many times they rehearsed the cooking scene before deciding it was never going to work.

Even if this worked perfectly, ignoring the fact that it's clearly setup for the camera to recognise certain things and is in no way a genuine demonstration, what is the point of this? By the time it's even responded to his first "Hey meta" he could have typed "korean steak sauce recipe" into his search engine of choice and got back several dozen decent results in seconds.

What is the problem that these LLMs and chatbots are the solution for? It's like they're all desperately trying to market some fancy new type of barely functioning legs to everyone when we already have legs, and arms, and cars, and bicycles.

"I think the WIFI might be messed up."

Bro, I think the AI might be messed up. You don't get instructions to grate a pear when a device cannot connect to the internet.

I see Mark Cuckberg has become an adept of the "BSoD in front of everyone", now that Microsoft no longer does that. Remember that metaverse marketing?

What surprises me isn't that AI failed, what surprises me is that Zuckerberg believes in his own hyping of AI so much he had the confidence to try to do this at all, live, unstaged. Is this courage, honesty, stupidity, hubris?

The most favourable explanation I can think of is that they tried it out ahead of the presentation, it worked well enough, so they trusted it could be repeated.

You are all falling for meta advertising, if it wasn't for this mishap nobody would know they are releasing a new product

God that's so awkward, the super long pauses before it can even start replying, the horrible robot voice it has, and them both trying to pretend it's a wifi issue lmao.

I wonder if botched demos are not starting to become intentional. In the end, the more people talk about something, the more successful that marketing action is, right?