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Meta's live staged demo fails; the "AI" recording plays before the actor acts

https://old.reddit.com/r/LivestreamFail/comments/1nkbig7/metas_live_staged_demo_fails_the_ai_recording/
86•personjerry•1h ago

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pera•53m ago
There is a second part that is equally bad, but with Zuck:

https://old.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/1nkbqyk/...

fluoridation•41m ago
God, that's actually painful to watch. I can't believe I lasted two minutes.
sebgan•31m ago
I was going to say that’s two minutes I won’t get back (and I won’t) but, ya know, schadenfreude.
fluoridation•26m ago
It's kind of like Peep Show, where the writers tried to engineer the most awkward social situations, only without the jokes.
OJFord•31m ago
Would be good to change the OP link to this - it's the same clip but plus a bit more.
jjbinx007•47m ago
This is like a Black Mirror episode. Also, is it a conscious decision to make the TTS sound so robotic?
josefritzishere•47m ago
AI is hot trash. When will this river of garbage stop?
zer0zzz•34m ago
These hot takes with no context only make the ai argument stronger.
mattigames•28m ago
That sounds a bit too much like "this is good for Bitcoin"
timpera•40m ago
The failures on stage were kind of endearing, to be honest, especially the one with Zuck. Plus the products seem really cool, I hope I'll be able to try them out soon.
zer0zzz•34m ago
Yeah. I’m impressed we have any sort of wave guide display on sale commercially this year.
jaccola•26m ago
Zuckerberg has negative charisma, it's painful to watch...

Jobs handled this so much better; while clearly he is pissed, he doesn't leave you cringing in mutual embarrassment, goes to show it isn't as easy as he makes it look!

See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M4t14s7nSM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znxQOPFg2mo

rhetocj23•14m ago
Jobs was one of a kind. He had that aura that Bill G et al envied. He admitted so in a video that can be found on YT.
Fricken•39m ago
What a piece of crap. The glasses don't seem to work very well either.
ryandrake•31m ago
I love how they randomly blame the WiFi network, like anyone is going to buy it.
jerlam•16m ago
It's almost certainly a joke. Everyone knows that the demo failed.
Raed667•14m ago
probably a reference to Steve Jobs or an attempted joke ?
skhameneh•25m ago
As much as it'll be "interesting" to see how models behave in real world examples (presumably similarly to how the demos went), I'm not convinced this is a premade recording like what seems to be implied.

I'm imagining this is an incomplete flow within a software prototype that may have jumped steps and lacks sufficient multi-modal capability to correct.

It could also be staged recordings. But, I don't think it really matters. Models are easily capable of working with the setup and flow they have for the demo. It's real world accuracy, latency, convenience, and other factors that will impact actual users the most.

What's the reliability and latency needed for these to be a useful tool?

For example, I can't imagine many people wanting to use the gesture writing tools for most messages. It's cool, I like that it was developed, but I doubt it'll see substantial adoption with what's currently being pitched.

dabbz•20m ago
Yea the behavior of the AI read to me more like a hard coded demo but still very much "live". I suspect him cutting it off was poorly timed and that timing could have amplified due to WiFi? Who knows. I wasn't there. I didn't build it.
YeahThisIsMe•5m ago
So the live demo failed?
reader9274•24m ago
Should've downloaded more ram for the wifi to work better
sampton•14m ago
I bet they rehearsed a dozen times and never failed as bad live. Got to give them props for keeping the live demos. Apple has neutered its demos so much it's now basically 2 hr long commercials.
self_awareness•13m ago
Those WiFi's man, they're always trouble
watersb•12m ago
Never work with children, animals, and puppets.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NeverWorkWithChi...

alangibson•11m ago
That wasn't prerecorded, but it was rigged. They probably practiced a few times and it confused the AI. Still it's no excuse. They've dropped Apollo-program level money on this and it's still dumb as a rock.

I'm endless amazed that Meta has a ~2T market cap, yet they can't build products.

johnnyanmac•6m ago
[delayed]
privatelypublic•6m ago
Well, it _IS_ a rock after all.
MattDaEskimo•6m ago
More than likely the full response was kept as context despite being interrupted.

Notably though, the AI was clearly not utilizing its visual feed to work alongside him as implied

nba456_•5m ago
still better than the pre-taped apple events. happy to see these products in action

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