I'm sure the tech is neat. But I get a real sinking feeling from how hard tech giants like "Meta" are trying openly to create dystopia. The "Metaverse" is not aspirational!
> That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space
Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern smartphone disease and amplify it a few orders of magnitude.
> While LLMs rely on vast amounts of training data that typically comes from a range of publicly available text sources on the web, no such repository of information yet exists for physical spaces at the scale needed for training an end-to-end model.
Considering the tremendous scale in question, the "yet" is also terrifying. The only way to collect such a dataset would be if some large fraction of people were wearing always-on, network connected cameras. Meta clearly sees this future and wants it; the kind of future where everyone wears a Meta headset, all the time, and has their experience of reality mediated through it - optimized to maximize shareholder value of course, under the watchful eye of The Algorithm. A panopticon AI shoggoth.
Meta is an AI paperclip maximizer, and it is getting uncomfortably close to the "RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES" stage.
> That understanding would let AR glasses tailor content to you and your individual context, like seamlessly blending a digital overlay with your physical space
Horrifying, if it ever takes off in the way that "Meta" wants it to. Take the modern smartphone disease and amplify it a few orders of magnitude.
> While LLMs rely on vast amounts of training data that typically comes from a range of publicly available text sources on the web, no such repository of information yet exists for physical spaces at the scale needed for training an end-to-end model.
Considering the tremendous scale in question, the "yet" is also terrifying. The only way to collect such a dataset would be if some large fraction of people were wearing always-on, network connected cameras. Meta clearly sees this future and wants it; the kind of future where everyone wears a Meta headset, all the time, and has their experience of reality mediated through it - optimized to maximize shareholder value of course, under the watchful eye of The Algorithm. A panopticon AI shoggoth.
Meta is an AI paperclip maximizer, and it is getting uncomfortably close to the "RELEASE THE HYPNODRONES" stage.