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Even if this worked perfectly, ignoring the fact that it's clearly setup for the camera to recognise certain things and is in no way a genuine demonstration, what is the point of this? By the time it's even responded to his first "Hey meta" he could have typed "korean steak sauce recipe" into his search engine of choice and got back several dozen decent results in seconds.
What is the problem that these LLMs and chatbots are the solution for? It's like they're all desperately trying to market some fancy new type of barely functioning legs to everyone when we already have legs, and arms, and cars, and bicycles.
That’s not the point. He’s planning to harvest data about the environment in your home (what products you have around you, which brands do you prefer, etc) for better ad targeting and whatnot.
I guarantee that a lot of people will use it; and not because it does a great job, but out of curiosity, peer pressure, or abject laziness.
Well sure, but you can't harvest data using your one legged mech suit of everyone keeps riding around on their perfectly functional bike.
LLMs just don't have a real use case for most people. That's the core issue here, and it isn't one that's going to get solved anytime soon.
Yup, their only real use in my daily life would be as a search result summary tool. Unfortunately in my experience they're they've been a net negative in that area and are hidden/ignored because they give the most common answer, which is rarely the specific answer I'm searching for.
I’m pretty sure lots of people use Google Home Assistant or Amazon’s Alexa. Now slap a camera on it and hook it to an LLM and you’re all set. That’s what meta is about to do.
object recognition and classification is not LLM
No, but it can certainly augment LLMs.
Meta isn't really a widget seller, though. Alexa and the Google thing only have the user base they do because they jam it into every device they sell.
It’s not a huge leap for them though. They could do it. They already sell VR gear that’s relatively popular, and they have the resources and reach to market anything. If it allows them to spy on people to this level, watch them subsidise any device they sell to hell and back.
Even acquiring a company that already sells consumer electronics/appliances and subsidising their products isn’t impossible for them. Like I said, they have the resources.