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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/mark-zuckerberg-quietly-buries-the-metaverse/ar-AA188XQ6But make no mistake: Mark Zuckerberg just buried the metaverse. The metaverse is dead.
The metaverse was supposed to be the Next Big Thing for the social-media tycoon, who in 2021 went so far as to rename his empire -- created from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp -- as Meta Platforms. ...
Zuckerberg has just held the funeral by turning to the next big shiny thing, namely artificial intelligence.
The "Meta" bet only cost the company $24 Billion.
canetoad
(17,088 posts)@fail.
Hope all is well.
Hekate
(90,189 posts)Backseat Driver
(4,333 posts)I still maintain my avatar, Serendipity H., and log in once in a great while to look around, but others I "knew" drifted away: the DJ, the dancer; the builders, the singers, and the saloon owner. It got expensive or we all bumped into messy real life, I guess. I didn't build, but my adult kids were patient educating me about how to play. They made some clothing and had several shops, a great creative 'puter-designed experience!!! We all had our own lifestyles for a while. DH and I picked our own property, landscaped it, decorated for Christmas, had our own furnished log home and often went out dancing (avatar animation was a lot of fun)...something that we didn't ever do in real life, hahaha. And oh my, the shopping for just about anything you'd find or never knew you wanted around the world including flirting to hot S-e-X, oh yeah, LOL! Fun while it lasted for a bookish introvert like me...
Backseat Driver
(4,333 posts)I still maintain my avatar, Serendipity H., and log in once in a great while to look around, but others I "knew" drifted away: the DJ, the dancer; the builders, the singers, and the saloon owner. It got expensive or we all bumped into messy real life, I guess. I didn't build, but my adult kids were patient educating me about how to play. They made some clothing and had several shops, a great creative 'puter-designed experience!!! We all had our own lifestyles for a while. DH and I picked our own property, landscaped it and had our own furnished log home. and often went out dancing (avatar animation was a lot of fun)...something that we didn't ever do in real life, hahaha. And oh my, the shopping for just about anything you'd find or never knew you wanted around the world including flirting to hot S-e-X, oh yeah, LOL! Fun while it lasted for a bookish introvert like me...
BigmanPigman
(51,430 posts)I want to see full blown public humiliation...of course it will never happen though.
usonian
(9,413 posts)Brandon Vigliarolo
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Funnily enough, neither do more than 11,000 people who used to work for him. Maybe that security budget does make a bit of sense.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/meta_zuckerberg_security_budget/
Retrograde
(10,068 posts)and always will be - old Silicon Valley saying
canetoad
(17,088 posts)1930s? 80s?
It's all coder's hubris. The algorithms driving AI are written by humans. That makes them fallible.
DallasNE
(7,392 posts)At that time, it seemed to me to be nothing more than a concept. Back then it seems like the goal was to be able to convert a script into a programming language, so it is being repurposed.
Renew Deal
(81,801 posts)And is it worth anything?
canetoad
(17,088 posts)Meta Bridge for sale.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)J_William_Ryan
(1,736 posts)Correct.
It also means that theres nothing artificial about the intelligence.
usonian
(9,413 posts)Previous ones have also scraped the internet, turned into Nazi's (one Microsoft example, IIRC) and this one has come up with bizarre answers.
People choose both aspects: algorithms and datasets. I let someone else fill in the details. I remain very suspicious except for harmless applications such as image enhancement, which I do the old fashioned way with the usual filters.
Summaries would be useful to me if they actually worked. Till then, I skim.