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Mark Zuckerberg's showcase for how AI can help a chef put together a BBQ sauce fails awkwardly, at Meta connect. (video.twimg.com)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by Pro@programming.dev to c/Technology@programming.dev

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 76 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Transcript:

[guy] Hey, Meta, start LiveAI.
[two centuries later...]
[robot] Starting LiveAI. I love the setup you have here with soy sauce and other ingredients. How can I help?
[guy] Hey, can you help me make a Korean-inspired steak sauce for my steak sandwich here?
[robot] You can make a Korean-inspired steak sauce using soy sauce, sesame oil...
[guy, interrupting bot] What do I do first?
[three centuries later...]
[guy, repeating] What do I do first?
[robot] You've already combined the base ingredients, so now grate a pear to add to the sauce.
[guy] What do I do first?
[audience laughs]
[robot] You’ve already combined the base ingredients, so now grate the pear [audience laughs] and gently combine it with the base sauce.
[guy] Alright, I think the Wi-Fi might be messed up. Sorry, back to you, Mark!
~~[robot LARPing as a guy]~~ [Mark Zuckerberg] It's all good. Youknowwhat? It's all good. The irony of the whole thing is that you spend years making technology and then the Wi-Fi at the e[nd of the] day kinda catches you.

My comments:

Wi-Fi my arse. This is blatantly bull fucking shit. The model answered the situation wrong; it is able to parse individual items in the footage (note how it praises the "setup" at the start), but it babbles about the guy combining the base ingredients even if not the case.
Bot feels like a slowpoke. Seriously, it takes ages to answer the guy.
Anyone with a functional brain knows those models don't understand shit. However, answering "what do I do first?" with the assumption a person already did some steps is dumb even for those models.
People don't repeat questions to get the same answer. Is the "context" window of the bot that small?

[–] demizerone@lemmy.world 41 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Seems like blaming it on wifi was their safe word. 😂

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 9 points 4 days ago

[Guy] Spank me, daddy!
[Zuckerberg] Current location of your male parent required as further info.
[Guy] Ah, come on, just hit me Zucky~
[Zuckerberg punches the guy on the teeth]
[Guy] BLAME THE WIFI! BLAME THE WIFI!

...sorry I couldn't resist.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Idk about how impressed to be with uh… parsing the image. Like there is a bottle that says soy sauce, so it read that and then just…. Other ingredients? Vary specific!

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It is not impressive, but it makes the rest of the output even worse. You're expected to treat the bot's output as human language, but it doesn't make sense like language would: it identifies the soy sauce, it should be able to identify the bowl is empty, no change happened, and yet it's still babbling that the guy "already combined the base ingredients".

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Look, it’s just excited to grate the pear, okay?

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Is that a euphemism?