Meta Artificial Intelligence: The Future is the Mixture of the Digital and the Physical, and David Zuckerberg Celebrates 2021 at Meta Connect-23
Most people have very little experience with these advances. Meta has done a lot of testing and red teaming to make sure its Artificial Intelligence is safe, but the company is slowing down the roll out of new products.
These aren’t new ideas for Zuckerberg — Meta has been working on blending virtual and physical space for years. But the speech was markedly different from his presentation in 2021. Amidst the covid-19 pandemic, he promised that in the next decade, most people would spend time in a fully immersive, 3D version of the internet — particularly Meta’s Horizon Wolds platform. The keynote saw him donning a VR headset to meet his friends in space to play poker as a cartoon avatar. It played up the wonder of meeting up in an unreal world, showing cards and players floating in zero gravity.
I believe we are close to where you will be physically with your friends and others will be in holograms, but they will feel the same as everyone else. You can take a stroll into a meeting and sit at a table. He said there will be people who are holograms and people who are holograms in addition to a group of artificial intelligence guys who are helping you get different things done.
At Meta Connect-23, he has changed the way he talks about the metaverse. He once considered the metaverse to be a completely digital new world. Now, he aims to convince the public that the future is a blend of the digital and the physical.
Zuckerberg’s AI presentation this week departed even further from his original mission. Meta believes that it can create the perfect super smart chatbot by putting them into social feeds. Some will appear as avatars, posting stories just like humans do. A new contact has appeared in your list of friends, and in the form of a robot called Meta Artificial Intelligence, which can answer some questions, like the one asked by the chatGtP. The electronic interloper can join in with your group chats.
Meta can’t abandon the metaverse the way many companies have done. It can be found in the name. The metaverse has always been a dicey term. Is it VR? Is it a computer program? Is it video games? The best answer might be that whatever Meta does is the metaverse.
Khari Johnson on the Gadget Lab: AI Chatbots at WIRED and Mixed Reality at Meta Quest 3 and FB Glasses
This week on the Gadget Lab, we talk with Khari Johnson, senior writer at WIRED about mixed reality hardware Meta announced this week and how the company sits in the great artificial intelligence arms race.
Read Khari’s story about Meta’s many AI chatbots. Lauren reported about the upcoming Meta Quest 3 headset and Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses.
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Facebook: How to Connect with People? How Facebook Becomes a Virtual Reality (VVR) Mission: Some Recent Developments in the Cognitive and Social Sciences
There are a lot of questions about this path. The original point of Facebook, a mission that Zuckerberg has at no time repudiated even after his company’s name change, is connecting people. You know, humans. For years whenever Zuckerberg talked about VR he would emphasize that it was going to be a social medium. VR in his view was all about hangouts, meetings, and getting you-are-there experiences from afar, largely anchored by Meta’s Horizon Worlds app.
The messaging has changed recently. A few weeks ago I received a demo of a new game. Product managers and executives talked for over an hour about headsets and applications. There was no mention of an improvement to the social experience. There has been a report that executives complain that employees are avoiding using the app, which one might have expected to be a ground-up change. When I asked about the omission, the executives hemmed and hawed. The keynote did not include any mention ofHorizon Worlds and social experiences.