"The tool, designed to spy on the objects in your home and send that data back to Facebook for advertising reasons...wait, sorry, I mean to answer questions while responding to your current environment, was asked to help Mark's pretend-friend Jack Mancuso create a new sauce for his sandwich. Even in the heavily rehearsed and pre-scripted demonstration, the AI immediately shit the bed, leaving Mancuso and Zuckerberg to spuriously blame the wifi for the obvious technological fail."
"It's really important that we all acknowledge this, that the world is selling itself a multi-billion dollar lemon, predictive text engines that have nothing intelligent about them. They're giant sorting machines, which is why they're so good at identifying patterns in scientific research, and could genuinely advance medicine in wonderful ways. But what they cannot do is think, and as such, it's a collective mass-delusion that these systems have any use in our day-to-day lives beyond plagiarism."
Mark Zuckerberg presented a Meta Connect 2025 tool meant to scan household objects, answer environment-related questions, and send data back to Facebook for advertising. A live demo asked the system to suggest a sauce from visible ingredients, but the system failed visibly and the presenters blamed the Wi‑Fi. The underlying technology functions as predictive text and pattern-recognition rather than genuine thought. Such models excel at sorting data and spotting research patterns and may aid medicine, but they cannot truly think. Overhyping these systems risks mass delusion, privacy harms, and limited everyday usefulness beyond replication and plagiarism.
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