Meta Is Building a Digital Voice Assistant for Metaverse Push (bloomberg.com) 16
Facebook parent company Meta Platforms is building a digital voice assistant to help people interact hands-free with physical devices, such as the company's Portal video-calling device and, eventually, augmented-reality glasses. From a report: Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said the company is building the assistant in preparation for the so-called metaverse, a more immersive version of the internet that will let people interact online through virtual and AR glasses. Digital assistants will need to "learn the way humans do" to help users navigate this new online world, Zuckerberg said during a presentation on Wednesday. "When we have glasses on our faces, that will be the first time an AI system will be able to really see the world from our perspective -- see what we see, hear what we hear and more," Zuckerberg added, saying he hopes to eventually build AI assistants that can "move between virtual and physical worlds." The AI assistant doesn't have a name, but Meta is calling the effort "Project CAIRaoke."
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How about 'no?' (Score:3)
The Metaverse is sounding more and more like Zuckerberg's fever dream rather than a legitimate attempt to create something. Like every couple days we get another new gem of sci-fi level geekery that's definitely, almost, maybe, possibly gonna happen attached to the Metaverse. Computers do not think. There won't be any possibility that they "see" or "hear" the world like us because they don't have the capacity to see and hear like us. They'll take visual data and audio data, run it through some machine learning algorithms and spit out results, but that doesn't mean they are seeing or hearing like us. And the idea that we can use this type of language to blur the lines between human and machine seems way off-base to me.
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I can see if your primary driver is to create a game that the 3d immersive experience could be quite interesting. I could also see where using a 3d immersive headset experience could give a great way for physical engineers and architects to interact with the things they are designing. For me as a software engineer I would like to have nearly infinite screen real e
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Yep. The use case you describe is the one thing I can see these headsets being good at. Massive virtual monitors that you can move your head to get different parts of the monitor. Gaming I'm give or take on, as I do think the tech is cool, but games are so crappy for the most part it's hard for me to get into them anymore.
Yeah, Zuck seems to be losing it. (Score:2)
Only Zuck would (Score:1)
We don't call Google Alphabet (Score:2)
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"Meta" stands for... (Score:2)
... "Metastasize"
Yawn (Score:2)
Please don't encourge this Meta Marketing Bullshit (Score:2)
MetaFaced... (Score:2)
Seriously
Oh YAY! *Finger waggle* (Score:2)
ANOTHER voice assistant...
Wish I had more money (Score:2)