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usonian

(9,413 posts)
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 02:12 AM Mar 2023

Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technologyinvesting/mark-zuckerberg-quietly-buries-the-metaverse/ar-AA188XQ6
There will be no press release, no big announcement, as he would have to acknowledge that he was wrong.

But 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.
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Mark Zuckerberg Quietly Buries the Metaverse (Original Post) usonian Mar 2023 OP
#SecondLife2 canetoad Mar 2023 #1
Ha! Hekate Mar 2023 #2
Hey sister canetoad Mar 2023 #3
Doin' okay, just need to get out more and stuff Hekate Mar 2023 #5
I enjoyed my Second Life experiences and friends. In fact, Backseat Driver Mar 2023 #6
I enjoyed my Second Life experiences and friends. In fact, Backseat Driver Mar 2023 #7
Gee, couldn't happen to a nicer guy. BigmanPigman Mar 2023 #4
Everyone loves him (?) usonian Mar 2023 #10
AI is the technology of the future Retrograde Mar 2023 #8
How old? canetoad Mar 2023 #11
I Remember Reading Articles On AI back in the early 1990's DallasNE Mar 2023 #16
Did they sell real estate in the metaverse? Renew Deal Mar 2023 #9
I've got a very nice canetoad Mar 2023 #12
"artificial intelligence" Well, the Republican voting base does need all the help it can get. cstanleytech Mar 2023 #13
"The algorithms driving AI are written by humans. That makes them fallible." J_William_Ryan Mar 2023 #14
ChatGPT and others are very sensitive also to their training data. usonian Mar 2023 #15

Backseat Driver

(4,333 posts)
6. I enjoyed my Second Life experiences and friends. In fact,
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 03:26 AM
Mar 2023

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)
7. I enjoyed my Second Life experiences and friends. In fact,
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 03:31 AM
Mar 2023

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)
4. Gee, couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 03:18 AM
Mar 2023

I want to see full blown public humiliation...of course it will never happen though.

usonian

(9,413 posts)
10. Everyone loves him (?)
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 03:53 AM
Mar 2023
Meta cranks Zuckerberg's personal security budget to $14m while cutting everything else
Brandon Vigliarolo
Thu 16 Feb 2023
Zuckerberg is wealthy enough to only need to draw a $1 annual salary from Meta, which the company uses to justify the security budget. In addition to essentially not receiving a salary, Zuck "does not receive any bonus payments, equity awards, or other incentive compensation," Meta said.

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/

canetoad

(17,088 posts)
11. How old?
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 03:57 AM
Mar 2023

1930s? 80s?

It's all coder's hubris. The algorithms driving AI are written by humans. That makes them fallible.

DallasNE

(7,392 posts)
16. I Remember Reading Articles On AI back in the early 1990's
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 12:35 PM
Mar 2023

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.

J_William_Ryan

(1,736 posts)
14. "The algorithms driving AI are written by humans. That makes them fallible."
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 04:27 AM
Mar 2023

Correct.

It also means that there’s nothing ‘artificial’ about the intelligence.

usonian

(9,413 posts)
15. ChatGPT and others are very sensitive also to their training data.
Fri Mar 3, 2023, 09:45 AM
Mar 2023

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.

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