[kiratp]

So much negativity.

I’m just excited that our industry is lead by optimists and our culture enables our corporations to invest huge sums into taking us forward technologically.

Meta could have just done a stock buyback but instead they made a computer that can talk, see, solve problems and paint virtual things into the real world in front of your eyes!

I commend them on attempting a live demo.

[wolvesechoes]

> I’m just excited that our industry is lead by optimists and our culture enables our corporations to invest huge sums into taking us forward technologically.

I am always baffled that people can be that naive.

[lioeters]

It's a weird way to put it too, "our industry" and "our culture" enables "our corporations". They're not "our" corporations as a society, why should we be excited about their investments.

There's a cognitive dissonance between talking about capitalist entities that supposedly drive social and technological progress, and the repeated use of the collective "our" and "us". Corporations are not altruistic optimists aiming to better our lives.

[ares623]

He's the CEO of a multi-billion dollar corporation, promising technology that puts the livelihoods of millions of people at risk. He deserves every bit of scrutiny he gets.

[8note]

> that puts the livelihoods of millions of people at risk.

what livelihood are these glasses putting at risk?

[johnfn]

Yes, the mocking, gleeful negativity really does make me concerned that this place is becoming Reddit. The fact that the highest upvoted post on this thread is just a link to Reddit isn't doing much to help me feel better. And I've been here for at least a decade, so I don't think this is the noob illusion.

[rsynnott]

But, I mean… it’s just not good. There is no real way to spin this as anything better than embarrassing.

[kilroy123]

I've been here for over a decade. It has become very reddit like in the past few years.

I want to get into YC just to use and browse Bookface instead.

[hu3]

The signal to noise ratio certainly became worse.

You'll see the same folks spamming their hatred towards tesla/microsoft/meta/google over and over with zero substance other than sentimental blabbering.

[throwawayoldie]

It's a different world than it was ten years ago. Among the ways it's different are people are far more skeptical of billionaires, Big Tech, and capitalism generally. They're willing to cut them much less slack. This is one of the few ways that the world of today is better than the world of ten years ago.

[lefstathiou]

Bots bots bots... tearing down our stars is good business for a variety of vested interests. Don't let the bastards grind you down.

[WD-42]

Oh please. This isn't like the old iPhone days where new features and amazing tech were revealed during live demos. Failure was acceptable then because what we were being shown was new and pushing the envelope.

Meta and friends have been selling us AI for a couple years now, shoving it everywhere they can and promising us it's going to revolutionize the workforce and world, replace jobs, etc. But it fails to put together a steak sauce recipe. The disconnect is why so many people are mocking this. It's not comparable.

[dkjaudyeqooe]

All you're doing here is associating your hopes and dreams with grifters and charlatans.

They should be mocked and called out, it might leave room for actual innovators who aren't glossy incompetents and bullshitters.

[qmmmur]

But that’s the thing… it’s not a live demo…

[kiratp]

I see no evidence of that. It seems like they tried to put the AI “on rails” with predefined steps and things went wrong.