alt Hacker NewsI think Meta’s massive compute investment was never about its 100,000 engineers running coding models, but its 3,500,000,000 users wanting to use AI in every single product (and some new ones: Meta AI, glasses, etc.) So I would think that’s the part that’s not being utilized anywhere near the amount they hoped...
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Right. But that's the same thing, isn't it? AI can't be made to do the job in those products. The only products it can do are shallow toys.
The idea that users wanted AI was always a fantasy. Especially for Meta's products.
The whole hype cycle has been pure delusion. Just like the Metaverse hype cycle before it.
Meta's AI is the stupidest in the business.
Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and other models can discuss and affirm my "foxwork" practice whether it is talking about natural history, fox legends, ritual magic, altar work, autonomic control, blessings, writing, character acting, costume design, skin care, selection of perfumes that will herald my unique natural scent, marketing and customer service, photography gear, "therian" gear, bags for holding my gear, street photography, etc. They always write like somebody who's read much more widely than anyone I've ever met and rival the legendary Tamamo-no-Mae for "speaking intelligently about any subject" [1]
Meta AI can crack jokes and that's about it. I guess there's a market for "stupid talk" but it's not that big.
[1] Like help me fix my washing machine that won't drain, come up with master narratives for the "polycrisis", talk about why Casey Handmer is wrong about space manufacturing, find papers about the social network of who sleeps with who at a high school, etc.
Do the 3.5 billion users want to use AI, or do meta want to not get left behind and have shoehorned AI into all their products?