"On an earnings call this summer, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg made an ambitious claim about the future of smart glasses, saying he believes that someday people who don't wear AI-enabled smart spectacles (ideally his) will find themselves at a "pretty significant cognitive disadvantage" compared to their smart-glasses-clad kin. Meta's most recent attempt to demonstrate the humanity-enhancing capabilities of its face computing platform didn't do a very good job of bolstering that argument."
"In a live keynote address at the company's Connect developer conference on Wednesday, Zuckerberg tossed to a product demo of the new smart glasses he had just announced. That demo immediately went awry. When a chef was brought onstage to ask the Meta glasses' voice assistant to walk him through a recipe, he spoke the "Hey Meta" wake word, and every pair of Meta glasses in the room-hundreds, since the glasses had just been distributed to the crowd of attendees-sprang to life and started chattering."
"In an Instagram Reel posted after the event, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth (whose own bit onstage had run into technical problems) said the hiccup happened because so many instances of Meta's AI running in the same place meant they had inadvertently DDOS'd themselves. But a video call demo failed too, and the demos that did work were filled with lags and interruptions."
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg predicted that people who do not wear AI-enabled smart glasses will face a significant cognitive disadvantage. A live product demo at the Connect conference malfunctioned when a wake word activated hundreds of distributed glasses, causing widespread chattering. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth attributed the incident to many AI instances in one place effectively DDOS'ing the system. A video call demo failed, and functioning demos experienced lags and interruptions. Analysts emphasize high failure risk with current AI assistants and a substantial gap between demonstrated features and dependable real-world performance.
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