Why has Emperor Zuck given us this bounty?
https:// news.ycombinator.com /item Why has Emperor Zuck given us this bounty?
In this big thread, over and over, people praise the Zuck-man for releasing Llama 3's weights. How magnanimous! How courteous! How devious!
Of course, Meta is doing this so that they don't have to worry about another 4chan leak of weights via Bittorrent.
"You’ll also soon be able to test multimodal Meta AI on our Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses."
Now this is interesting. I've been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.
Instead, everyone will have their own AI assistant, which you'll interact with naturally the same way as you interact with other people. Need something visual? Just ask for the latest stock graph for MSFT for example.
God, I hope not. Maybe it's just me, but this sounds insanely annoying? It kind of reminds me of the objection I've seen to the metaverse, where it's actually a more inefficient way to do stuff, so it doesn't make sense to imagine it replacing the text-based internet.
Like, I'm not even a fan of smartphones these days, but surely in a world where you could only access information via yelling at your smart glasses, the invention people would be crying out for would be a way to use it silently with your hands, with a screen you could use to easily show it to other people...?
16If you look between the lines, you’ll see this is just a repitch to Glassholes but totes cool now because people “will want to wear Ray-Ban sunglasses amirite”
I look forward to hearing they burned another $3b or whatever on this
10I’ve been thinking for some time now that traditional computer/smartphone interfaces are on the way out for all but a few niche applications.
I'm sorry what? What is this even supposed to mean? You're sure as fucj typing it on a "traditional" browser mate, that a niche application?
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