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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.
That’s not the point. He’s planning to harvest data about the environment in your home (what products you have around you, which brands do you prefer, etc) for better ad targeting and whatnot.
I guarantee that a lot of people will use it; and not because it does a great job, but out of curiosity, peer pressure, or abject laziness.
Well sure, but you can't harvest data using your one legged mech suit of everyone keeps riding around on their perfectly functional bike.
LLMs just don't have a real use case for most people. That's the core issue here, and it isn't one that's going to get solved anytime soon.
Yup, their only real use in my daily life would be as a search result summary tool. Unfortunately in my experience they're they've been a net negative in that area and are hidden/ignored because they give the most common answer, which is rarely the specific answer I'm searching for.
I’m pretty sure lots of people use Google Home Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. Now slap a camera on it and hook it to an LLM and you’re all set. That’s what meta is about to do.
object recognition and classification is not LLM
No, but it can certainly augment LLMs.
Meta isn't really a widget seller, though. Alexa and the Google thing only have the user base they do because they jam it into every device they sell.
It’s not a huge leap for them though. They could do it. They already sell VR gear that’s relatively popular, and they have the resources and reach to market anything. If it allows them to spy on people to this level, watch them subsidise any device they sell to hell and back.
Even acquiring a company that already sells consumer electronics/appliances and subsidising their products isn’t impossible for them. Like I said, they have the resources.
Which will still not be enught to make ads work. It's so much effort and abuse for nothing.
To be fair, it is helpful to do grunt repetitive work which is only slightly different from the established formula. For me, it solved a quick math olympiad-esque problem which appeared in research.
But it is never conscious or creative.
The idea is the AI would automatically look at what you have and come up with something, substituting ingredients for what you have as necessary.
Have you tried looking for a recipe in the last 10 years or so? 10 pages of fluff with a recipe the author cobbled together from other recipes and guess work and made exactly 1 time if that at the bottom.
The same pressures that made internet search suck applies to AI doing search as well.
You know what would be more useful than this AI and wouldn't cost billions of dollars? If Facebook made a simple recipe that didn't have all that fluff. Instead of having AI try to come up with it in the fly, you could just have premade recipes. Wouldn't that be grand. Oh wait, that wouldn't give the opportunity for the AI to recommend a specific brand of soy sauce or that you buy your spices from Doordash with a 10% discount coupon!
chatGPT as NEVR suggested a specific bran to me. What is it about anti-AI crusading do you think excuses your deliberate misinformation?
If you think that they’re never going to put subtle ads into LLM output then you are really, really unaware of what the tech world is like and how they’re fucking using you
AI deserves to be crusaded against because we cannot trust the motivations of any of its creators. Do YOU trust Mark Zuckerberg??
I know for a fact that the ones I've used have never done that. I don't just mindlessly use them, I evaluate their output. The tech "using me" isn't a surprise, like you single-minded ideologues think. I know what I put in and what use I'm looking to get out of it. It's an extremely useful tool that I'm not going to discard because of angry people with shitty arguments on the internet.
These "crusades" are stupid and pointless. If YOU don't want to use it, THEN DON'T. Get over your rampant arrogance and understand that you're not entitled to order others around.
Why do you think advertising companies like Google and Meta are dumping so much money into AI? It isn't to make a better product for the user.
Because OpenAI opened up this new front and every other tech company has been trying to catch up since. Because it's a service they can offer people and make money from.
Yeah I guess that's why they've drastically improved in just a few years. Great agument.
But as in the staged example they've put together here, that required you to find and lay out all your ingredients already so you've already done 90% of the work. Are my AI glasses going to be able to scan all my cupboards and fridge and pantry for things first and then go from there? It's a bad solution to a problem that doesn't really exist.
Yes, all the time, I even looked at recipes for "Korean style steak sauce" to prove my point and got probably a dozen decent ones straight away, including a couple from very well recognised sites like BBC Good Food.
And where exactly do you suppose the LLM has scraped together all it's information from for what you can substitute canola oil or sesame seeds for? Those exact recipes you could just have searched for.
No, the idea is that you wear the glasses all the time and it scans and knows the contents of your house constantly. What brands you like, what products you own, what activities you do and when, what conversations you have, whether or not you like the government, whether or not you own a computer with an ad blocker, what the best entry points are for a SWAT team from ICE, etc.
So it would already know what ingredients you have for making a Korean inspired BBQ sauce, and as long as you were well-mannered and compliant in your home and all the public spaces you visit at all times, it wouldn’t direct you to the re-education camp for further analysis on what radicalized you out of their control.
I don’t understand why you people are so negative about AI and the motivations of these large tech companies creating it on here! Think of how much easier life would be.
Who cares? It's still more convenient.
LOL it demonstrably is not.
Cooking is my favorite use of AI. It has completely changed the way I eat, which is much healthier. I also try new things I never would have before. I load up on healthy ingredients, spices and sauces and let it do it's thing. You can always have it mix it up, or focus on an ingredient that's more perishable, or focus on something that may be expiring soon. The variability is endless. I've been cooking every day for months, never once made the same thing twice.
So your saying you are dumb. Gotcha