AI and the Next Computing Platforms with Jensen Huang and Mark Zuckerberg

Zuckerberg has always been mad he doesn’t have a platform.

FB was king, then the App Store and phones came along and FB was no longer so central.

Then they bought Occulus to try to get a platform, but VR hasn’t taken over the world.

Then they poured vast amounts of money into The Metaverse® to try to make that their platform everyone used, but that went nowhere.

Now AI is the hot thing. So Zuckerberg is out there talking about how, essentially, others shouldn’t be able to control it (it should be open!) so he doesn’t get boxed out again.

Same old story.

I am curious if the AI glasses thing takes off.

I tried Google Glasses both during a demo when I worked at Google and then a few months later a friend who was an elderly woman got a pair from Google, they were anxious to try the ‘old folks demographic’ I suppose. That product creeped out people not wanting their privacy invaded in bars, restaurants, etc.

I have not been following the Facebook AI glasses project, but a question I would ask is how the privacy issues will be handled. I would suggest not having the ability to take pictures and videos, rather, feed video into an LLM and then discard the video. Make it impossible to photograph other people using AI glasses.

I think Facebook has done an OK job with the Oculus product line, and I am a happy customer, so I am trying to keep an olen mind about FB AI glasses.

I don’t get the sense that they’re in touch with reality. They seem driven by attracting investors rather than doing engineering. Show me their git repos, their board layouts, their arxiv papers.