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Mark Zuckerberg's Pivot to AI Is Blowing Up in His Face Spectacularly (futurism.com)
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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 51 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Has he picked a single winner since he stole the idea for facebook?

[–] Maldaya@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Probably only when he bought out Instagram and Whatsapp, that's all I can think of

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Those were already popular before he bought them, and then he made them worse.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

...but no less popular

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I feel like Oculus improved under them, but yeah - an exception proves the rule.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't know if "improved" is as accurate as "accelerated" in that case. Oculus was already doing cool stuff they just needed the resources to really get going, and now Meta is all up in it so the service kinda blows.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, please tell me that he didn't take oculus & vr and drove it into the ground. Where is a nice cheap vr set (not locked in with some turd)?

[–] cantstopthesignal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He bought 100 lottery tickets through acquisition (probably more) and 2 of them hit.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

What's the second one 😅

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And Oculus

[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 2 points 2 months ago

He's working hard on destroying that one, don't worry. The quest experience has only gotten worse with every update.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Two other things I don't use.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I thought he actually stole the source code, not just the idea.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

How on earth can you steal the working thing but not the idea? I mean if it was your idea.

[–] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm suggesting that he didn't run back to his dorm room and recreate what he saw someone else do all quick like and rather stole their completed or nearly completed code.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 months ago

Oh yeah I misread that a bit. 👍🏼