AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a "strategic advantage," Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

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AI infrastructure will provides Meta with a “strategic advantage,” Zuckerberg said. He once said almost the exact same thing about the metaverse.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Zuckerberg finally got tired of the METAverse being useless and going nowhere.
    But he still thinks he is some sort of visionary tech genius. And he wants to capture the next big thing before anybody else.
    If he were smart he would have realized the metaverse was a stupid idea years ago. But unfortunately for him he is not very smart, he was just lucky and ruthless with facebook, and now he has become a megalomaniac drunk with the power of his billions.
    It is only months ago he thought he could create strong AI by building a massive LLM thinking strong AI would be an emerging property of massively concentrated stupidity. I think he at least has realized that is not the case.

    https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jul/30/zuckerberg-superintelligence-meta-ai

  • termaxima@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Now wait for the rename ! What is it gonna be this time ? I’m betting just “Intelligence” like they cut down “Metaverse” to just “Meta”

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    Alternate headline:

    “New shiny thing distracts idiot CEO into moving funds from one money pit to another.”

  • effariwhy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    I’m hoping the new steam frame will allow me to finally ditch my quest 2 and meta account

    • melfie@lemy.lolEnglish
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      4 days ago

      The Frame will probably cost more because it won’t be subsidized by surveillance capitalism. I’d rather pay more and actually own my hardware instead of paying a down payment in cash to take possession of a device Meta still owns, and then pay with my data indefinitely afterwards.

      • effariwhy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        I’m ok with paying more. I’ll never use a headset where I have to be tethered to a machine so anything like valve index is a no. I had some success with steam vr and quest 2 over wireless a few years ago, but it was never stable. I just want to put on my headset and start exercising without doing tech support.