Ready, go. There was a disappointing lack of meme-able Mark Zuckerberg moments.
No sunscreen at all, not a single drop.
He looked like a normal human almost. Yeah, except like slightly moisture.
Why did we even watch it at this point? It was actually very interesting though,
because the keynote was delayed, the MetaConnect keynote.
Twice. No, once, once, just once.
But it was very interesting because I've been covering tech news since 2013.
I've never seen that happen, unless I'm like tripping and it did happen one time, but the like 10 a.m. rolls around.
All right, we're gonna, it's the big hype event. All the journalists are here.
Tell us about your stuff. Like, it's 30 minutes, please.
Yeah, it wasn't a small delay either, it was half an hour.
It was a sizable delay. Like it's normal for these things to start a couple minutes late, but anyways.
But the reason they were doing that is because it was actually live,
which I thought was an interesting choice coming from Meta, where this like,
this is a fairly, there were some fairly big announcements made at this event.
You know, we got a look at the Oculus Quest 3.
That was already announced, but this time they fleshed out the specs and the features.
Gave us a date. Date price, and which is very interesting
in the context of like Apple and them announcing the Vision Pro in the summer.
Welcome to spatial computing. When is it coming?
I don't know. I know what we're calling it, though.
They talked about the Quest 3. They talked about AI, which up till now
has just been kind of open source stuff. They've got Llama out there, and they, you know,
released their research and other people tinker with it. And now it's gonna be their own standalone thing, Meta AI.
Complete with celebrities, we'll get to that. And- I'm so ready.
They also released Gen 2 of their Ray-Ban smart glasses,
which to me might have been the coolest thing there. These new ones have all those capabilities,
but you can also live stream from them,
so it's like a head-mounted camera so you can do stuff while you're streaming to people.
But the more interesting thing to me is the fact that Meta AI, which is what Meta is calling their-
AI? Their AI, which is weird because the division
of the company is also called Meta AI, like the division that works on this stuff,
and now they've called their product Meta AI.
Anyways, they released their ChatGBT sort of service.
It's a chatbot now. It's not just a model. So that chatbot is integrated into the glasses.
You can look at stuff, and because of the multimodal capabilities, and we'll get into that, you can-
What's that? It knows what you're looking at, and it can answer questions about it.
You're looking at a monument, and you're like, what's this thing? You're looking at a sign in another language?
You're like, what does that say? You're- How many lady Demetresques tall is that building?
It could answer that because it also has a hook into Bing.
Yeah, it has real-time information. But first, before we talk about that,
I do want to talk about the Quest 3 because Meta,
they've really been pivoting into AI in a big way
because all of these companies are encroaching on their territory.
They absorbed Oculus and then deleted the name,
and then all of a sudden, Apple comes out and is like, guess what?
We're making VR headsets too. I mean, mixed reality spatial computing.
So yeah, there was a bunch of writing on this, I guess.
If they could come out and show that they have a product
that is a compelling alternative,
which is funny that I'm even saying that, to the $3,500 headset that Apple is gonna release next year,
that would be compelling, but I don't know. You said that you wanted to buy the Vision Pro,
very hard last time. I didn't say that I wanted to buy it.
I said I could see like a market for it.
Yeah, and how many pre-orders did you place?
Like 17.
I took out a lot of loans. I'm not in a...
I'm gonna be honest, it's a good thing I'm sitting down because my kneecaps are not working
if you understand what I'm saying. They're about to not be working because they're coming for you.
Totally already out. Yeah, but the Quest 3 is cheaper,
but I'm still disappointed because it's $4.99,
which is $200 more than the Quest 2 launched for at $2.99,
and then they bumped it up to $3.99 at some point because they were like, wait a second,
people are buying these. We can up the price.
So it's $4.99, $500, one seventh the cost of the Vision Pro,
but we saw that it can do a lot of the things
that the Vision Pro can do. You compared the specs, you made a table for us.
I did, and also I should mention that the Quest 2 was at least as far as I know, it is now $2.99.
It's back to $2.99. Oh, the Quest... Oh, okay. That's actually good.
It's $2.99, it's $300.
I hate saying $2.99, it's $300 or it's $350 for the 256.
That's what we should say. 256, goodbye version. I'll move in a little bit here.
Yeah, so, and that's interesting
because Meta launched the Quest Pro.
I just envisioned the Starfield text coming up.
Nobody liked that. You're playing Starfield?
I just, I think it's funny because like, I think of the follow-up for meme.
Oh. Which is the same thing. Oh, they had the same thing? Everyone disliked that, yeah.
Oh, okay. Everyone disliked that.
I didn't play follow-up for. Probably for the best. Yeah.
Nobody liked the Quest Pro, so it's interesting to see that Meta kind of took that
and they were like, hmm, okay, no one wants to buy a $1,500 headset.
That's crap. Let's go for a $500 headset,
but they're still doing this, they're still adding this tier structure.
So like, I think a lot of people, maybe I was dumb to expect this,
but I expected the Quest 3 to kind of be what the Quest 2 was,
which is just like a straight update for the original Quest was cheap as well.
I forget how much, I think it was more expensive. I think it launched for like $4.99 or $3.99, I forget.
But then the Quest 2 launched and it launched at a cheaper price. And it's like, it's a better product
and it's still very cheap. I thought the Quest 3 was gonna follow that line.
Be a better product at a similar price. Yes, but they're clearly,
okay, we're gonna keep the Quest 2 in circulation. It's still a decent headset
and now we're gonna have a more premium option in the Quest 3.
It's an Apple model, ironically, because Apple continues to sell their older phones
as like the cheaper version. And they keep their lineup kind of continually shifting.
I mean, I think it's good in this case because there's not a lot of headsets in the space
and having more budget options, it makes business sense
in terms of increasing the amount of potential customers you can have.
But it also just kind of makes sense for people who say don't have the money
to drop $500 on an Oculus 3, but they still wanna experience a little bit of VR.
It's kind of nice to be able to dip your toes in the water, have something they can still connect to your PC,
they can do like passers, so you can play VR games from your computer.
Yeah. I mean, interestingly, I mean, I'm assuming the Quest 3 can connect to your PC.
Then you'll be correct.
Like the Quest 2, but they didn't talk about that at all.
I think they used to make the Oculus Rift,
which was a PC-only VR headset.
And now it seems like, well, we have these other examples,
like the Valve Index is still around and Big Screen Beyond is a,
I believe that's a PC headset, right? It's not standalone. Yes, it is, which is weird
because they market themselves as like, it's the smallest VR headset. And it's like, yes, but you can't move.
You're just there. You can't move? Well, I mean, in the sense that it's not standalone, right?
But interesting. Yeah, it doesn't come with any trackers. No, it doesn't come with any trackers,
it doesn't come with any controllers. Ships in Q3 2023, like right now?
Yeah, you order it and they customize it for you.
And here's where it gets stupid and kind of cool. So they do a 3D face scan
so they can make it to not only your face, but also your interpupillary distance.
Oh, no adjusting? No adjusting.
Well, I don't know if it doesn't have adjustment as much as it's dialed in for your specific IPD.
The thing is you need an iPhone XR or later
to get the face scan. And what they say in the FAQ is like,
if you don't have an iPhone, throw one from a friend. And if you don't have a friend, go to the Apple store
and use one from there because you can use it straight from Safari.
Okay, so yeah, this is a weird one. It doesn't really fit in easily to your paradigm
of what do you think a VR headset is. But look at that resolution.
But it is a good alternative for, there are some people like in the 5% that don't have,
that aren't fit into normal IPD, that aren't between 58 to 70, whatever the normal.
The big screen is still there. That's a PC thing, but the Quest 3
is really moving towards this like mixed reality,
standalone, no wires, no cables situation.
And you wear it around your house at all times. You can see all the fun little knickknacks
in the virtual knickknacks. Yeah, so that was one of the things. Never take it off.
That was one of the things that they talked about is the fact that you can have these things called Augments.
Because the Quest 3, I haven't looked at the like specific sensors that it has and whatnot,
but like you can, it'll do automatic space mapping now
or I think they call it scene capture, where you just kind of look around slowly in your area
and it will map everything into the virtual world
and then you can place virtual objects in physical space
at that stay there. And the thing is too, is apparently it recognizes
objects and gets depth too. Cause like there was an earlier leak even before this
where like they found like clips in the firmware and they looked at a couch, it recognized it as like ending
and there's being something behind it and also labeled it as couch.
So like it's pretty, pretty cool. Oh, it's also got like object recognition.
Yeah, apparently, yeah, at least from those earlier leaks. I mean, obviously, you know, if the Meta AI,
if it's integrated into the Ray-Ban glasses,
it's going to be in there, it's going to be in there. That is also one of the selling points
is that Quest 3 will also have Meta AI. Right, we thought that Facebook account being required
to log into the Quest was a problem.
Now you're going to have AI in your head. You're going to have DM Snoop Dogg right there.
You're going to have international funny man, MrBeast.
That's for later. That's for later. Yeah, the augments were one of the things
that I definitely thought were kind of cool about the Quest 3 portion of the presentation.
Was there anything they stuck out to you? I mean, the thing that really stuck out to me
was how much they were really seeming to gun for Apple
through that entire presentation. Like every time they showed like footage of like a computer,
except when they were talking about Windows 365, it was a Mac, it's like, you're going to work.
It's like, it just so happens that you're using macOS
It's like, you can put a big screen in your room. And it's like everything, it was like beat for beat.
Like this is what the Vision Pro does and we do it for one seventh the price.
It very much, yeah, there were specific moments that very much called to mind,
like Apple's Vision Pro announcement. And yeah, there was the big screen one.
There was the using your Mac desktop window.
Using your hands as controllers. Oh.
That was a thing. Well, yeah, Quest 2 has that as well.
Cause Vision Pro, yeah, Vision Pro is all your hands. Yeah, that was the whole thing.
I forgot about that. It's very simple. All you got to do is use your hands.
I don't know who that was supposed to be. It's sort of, I was going to try and do Tim Cook
and then I came out and I was like, this is not Tim Cook. Our Tim Cook impressions will get more and more sassy
as the video progresses. But yeah, the demos that they showed really called to mind
Apple's presentation and it did, honestly, for me,
that's why I was kind of like, all right, let's look at the specs here because resolution wise,
I want to know what the overall quality difference. Obviously like Apple is, you know,
it's their first spatial computing product,
but I do expect that there's going to be a level of polish
there that is just not there for any other VR product
or mixed reality or whatever. I mean, just look at the front glass. It's very polished.
You can see. Laugh. Straight into it. That was a laugh.
Laugh at me. That was a laugh. The one of the other comparisons I do want to mention
that's not in the spec list is something I just thought of now
is briefly, they talked about in the Vision Pro
about like how you can use Apple Arcade and you can play games on the Vision Pro.
And then Meta comes out and they're like, Xbox Game Pass, Cloud Gaming.
That's okay. I forgot about the Apple Arcade thing because Apple Arcade.
Is a pile of crap. Have you looked into it at all?
I forget whether it doesn't have like triple A games, right?
It just has like apps. Not to say that mobile games are all crap or whatever.
No, no, no. It has like one. It's got Fantasian. Vision Pro, Apple Arcade, you know, okay,
that's cool for people who like use Apple Arcade, I guess, but Xbox Cloud Gaming on the Quest 3
is going to be interesting. It's not VR games.
So there's, you know, you can cloud game
on a virtual screen. But this is now, because like one of the big points
I was making during like the Vision Pro thing that you were like for $3,500, I was talking like,
what about like a young professional? It's got like a small space and they want to have like a little space to themselves
where they can be closed off, where they can have this big screen
without having to have it take up all the space. All of those points I made,
we can make way more sense now at this $500 price policy.
Yeah, I mean, I'll go right with you and say that, you know, for maybe for students in a cramped dorm
or in an apartment that is- If you're sharing a house with 11 people,
which is a real thing that I know exists. Because no one can afford to live anywhere.
Yeah. Well, this is now a real estate podcast.
It's a seller's market, if you're buying you're losing.
Yeah, yeah. Maybe a $500 headset that serves all of these purposes.
I could, I still would say just buy like a Chromebook,
but like, but you could maybe justify this a little bit more,
but yeah, I'm not there yet. Okay, regardless. The pass through is really impressive too,
because they said it's 18 pixels per degree,
it's not exactly one-to-one with math, so level with me here,
but like doing a rough sort of estimate, it's like HD pass through,
so because it's 1980 by 17 and 28 pixels.
Like that's pretty good, especially compared to Quest 2s,
I just wrote bad because it was black and white in pixel.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, they put cameras on there and having used that myself,
like it's not a great experience. You don't want to spend any more time in that mode
than you have to. You feel like an out-of-date terminator.
I was like exercising in my living room a few times and I heard my wife walk in
and I like, you could tap the side of it to switch and I do that and like look over at her
and she's just kind of like.
And I can't, but I can't really see because it's so low res and black and white,
but it was very useful, but it is like, I think for a lot of these things,
it's hard to tell the usability of these headsets
and hard to really evaluate their quality just looking at a spec list.
I am really interested to see how these things perform
when they come out and if I get to compare them, I think I put in my ticket to say,
let me host the ShortCircuit for the Quest 3, so we'll see if they let me do that.
I wanted to make sure, because this is the, I think, the most important comparison.
You and I as a man of culture. Yes. Glasses. Yes.
Glasses compatibility. I was just gonna say, I forgot about the whole Zeiss lenses thing
for the Vision Pro so that it's gonna be even more expensive if you,
I mean, we're not the market, okay? And this is the whole argument I was making
in the last one when we talked about this, was like, they don't care.
Like Apple does not care whether you need glasses or not.
Like and they're not gonna put the space in there for that. They're like, if you're buying this, you have money,
spend some more and get the fancy lenses. Although if you have the money, why didn't you get laser?
Because. That's what Tim Cook's gonna sound like after a thousand Marlboro's.
Laser. Get laser. Welcome to another Apple event.
We got phones here. I wanna talk about the AI now
because this is interesting to me.
Meta has been sort of a champion of open source AI.
Open AI, ironically, is the opposite.
It's closed AI. They release almost nothing about
the underpinnings of their tech.
They keep it locked down. And Google's working on Bard.
We also have like Anthropic, which I guess everyone talks about,
but I have not used Claude and apparently you can use it,
but I haven't heard much about it at all. It's got some interesting features.
At Meta Connect, Mark Zuckerberg walks out and says,
okay, now we do have our own AI assistant.
We've integrated a llama and they said,
it's built on llama and other stuff.
Well, the first thing you said when it came out was, hey everybody, what about this crazy future?
Where everybody had VR and you had your own AI assistants
and a bunch of different AI friends and they all showed up in the metaverse
and you could talk to the light people. Did he say that? Anyway, here's the quest three.
Is that what happened? That is what happened, yeah. I don't remember that.
Yeah, he went on this whole 15 minute tangent. Oh, you know what it was?
I heard him say, the real world is really amazing.
Yeah, yeah, and then he checked out. And then right after he said that,
I cut to that guy looking at the camera and I was like, I burst out laughing
and immediately tried to make it. You immediately tweeted that. Yeah.
I was like, it was just so funny to have Mark Zuckerberg,
the weird person who doesn't seem like a real human
who loves the metaverse talking about it. You know, I will say, grass was pretty nice.
That's not, I'm doing Tim Cook as Mark Zuckerberg. You know what, reality really is amazing.
Recently chat, GPT got this, the multimodal update.
So now it can see here and speak is what OpenAI called it,
which means that you can show it images, you can have it generate images,
it can analyze things that way. And now all the major AI, like the LLM services can do that.
Chat GPT can do it. Bing has been able to do it for a while
with Dolly in both those cases.
Bard has been able to do it for a few months at least.
I think they added that to Bard in like May
or March or something. And now Meta AI is launching their chat bot
with multimodal capabilities with because of the other thing that they announced, EMU.
Now they have their own image generator. I was actually really impressed.
I think that these image generators have come so far
in just a year and a bit. Like Dolly too launched and it was like, okay,
you can make like a squishy, blurry image of a teddy bear holding a thing.
And now you can create photorealistic imagery of like, you know, humans.
And mid journey was kind of farthest along, but now it seems like with EMU that it can do that as well.
Dolly's recent update to Dolly three, it can do that as well.
Like everything is looking amazing with these image generators.
And there's obviously copious ethical concerns
still in the mix. Getty images just released their own AI generator
trained only on licensed images. So I think that's going in the right direction.
Zuck said that Meta AI can be invoked.
And I love that that's the term analogy we're using. It sounds like goddamn magic.
It sounds like- I invoke AI.
Put down your card. You're having a debate. It's a trap. Instead of like, bring up your phone and using Google.
Yeah, so you can invoke Meta AI, which it's a dumb name.
They should have called it something. Metai. You got chat GPT, you got Bard, you got Bing.
Bing AI is a stupid name. They could have- Everything that's blank AI is dumb and stupid.
Well, no, it's not Bing AI, it's just Bing. Like Bing is Bing.
Bing is one, Bing is all. All right, well, that's still stupid.
Guess what? But so they should have come up with a name.
Cause now we're saying Meta AI for the assistant.
How about this? Cortana.
Anything, even that. If Meta AI, if Meta came out and said,
it's called Cortana, I'd be like, fine. It's better.
That's a shot at Microsoft, by the way. So you can invoke it in Messenger,
WhatsApp, and Instagram, cause those are Meta's chat apps.
Which is pretty cool. I don't think you can do that with,
like can you, you can go to your chat GPT app and talk to chat GPT, and there are a bunch of apps
that have built in calls to- To GPT, yeah.
I think Snapchat AI, you can do that. Yeah.
Which just uses chat GPT. But I don't think you could just like be in a group chat.
That was, I mean, it's kind of scary. You can be in a group chat and be talking about something
and you're like, where should we go on the trip?
Let's get some ideas. Hey, Meta AI, give us some ideas,
and it'll come in and give you some ideas. But that kind of scares me, cause I'm like,
okay, maybe the people in your group chat, maybe your people in your group chat didn't consent to,
you know, you bringing in this like data sucking AI that is using your data to train itself.
Or just like a new personality whose vibe they have to like get. Like right now I gotta adjust to the sixth voice.
Like- The what? Like, you know, you ever been like a group
and all of a sudden like you're the sixth boy. What'd you say? Coming to theaters.
The sixth boy. What did you say? I mean, like, I mean, like, it's like,
what are those things where like, you know, you're just hanging out with people, and then like they just, like someone just brings
like a new person. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. And they're just like, now you gotta like get like a read
on their like their personality. Yeah. Like, like it's like-
Meta AI is the awkward friend that wasn't invited. It just like shows up and then like, you're like,
all right, now I have to like, understate and contemplate this person while also being afraid for my like privacy.
You're like, ah, I didn't really want to get to know a new person right now.
Yeah, I was just looking to like, crack a cold one with the boys. The boys.
Not boys plus a new boy. Not sixth boy.
In theaters Friday.
Anyways, yeah. So I think this is why this was interesting to me.
Chat GPT is obviously used very widely,
although users have apparently dropped off a cliff from when it was at its peak.
Yeah, that makes sense. But it has remained sort of like in its own bubble.
Bing is there, but in order to use Bing,
you have to use Bing. And I think a lot of people still don't like using Bing.
It's, yeah, I mean, they do, there are adding compatibility with third party browsers.
So at least you don't have to use Edge. Really? I believe that's correct, yes.
Oh, I didn't hear about that. Yeah, and obviously like, you know,
it's an edge or whatever, but regardless,
I like the idea. I think this is where things are going,
is you have an AI assistant that may,
I don't know if they talked specifically, they did talk about this training
specifically to certain people, but having an AI that you can like bring
into multiple different things. And that, you know, Windows Copilot,
I think is gonna be a bit like that, where it's just like a Windows,
which has apparently rolled out now. Yeah, but I am afraid for it.
I haven't checked anything on that. We'll have to see.
I'm afraid, because like one of the things I showed in the demo on their September,
whatever event, the summer 21st event,
was like, she highlighted like a whole block
of text in the email, and Amelia popped up and was like, hey, maybe you should do this with that.
And I already hate it when Microsoft Word does that,
because it's always wrong. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's always like, hey, do you wanna like
put that in a resume? No, I don't. It's almost funny because these features aren't,
it seems like these features are often not geared towards like power users who like,
I know what I have to do, I know how to do it, just let me do it.
And these companies keep creating these features
that are like, hey, I can help you. It's like Clippy just keeps coming back.
We keep killing him. And he keeps, why won't you die?
But I think that that kind of feature can be useful for non-power users who are like,
I'm just trying to do this for the first time. And if it's-
Grammys are gonna love AI. If it's usability is good enough to like
make up for the fact that it pops up in an opportune time, where it's like,
hey, do you wanna do this wrong thing? But it's like, no, but I wanna do this right thing.
And it's like, okay, sure. Like if it does that, then I don't know why it sounds
like an old-timey Disney character, but. Sure.
Well, I can help with that. Hiya, bucko.
All right, here we go. But the thing that we have to talk about,
one of the last things is these freaking characters.
So Meta AI is the general name for the assistant.
You know, it's the Siri, it's the Alexa, it's the Google Assistant.
But Meta announced AI Studio,
which will be a way for, I guess creators,
I guess brands, developers to create AI characters
with specific characteristics that are good for different things.
So if you wanna talk to an AI about sports, you talk to the AI character played by.
Tom Brady. Tom Brady. And if you wanna talk to somebody about manga,
you talk to Japanese tennis champion Naomi Osaka.
Is that real? Yes. No.
She's a tennis champion. Yes.
Some of these things didn't make- And if you wanna laugh, you talk to international funny man Jimmy,
AKA Mr. Beast. He's a hilarious, like he's a comedian.
He knows burgers, he knows chocolates. That's two fonts of comedy right there.
It's like, it just smacks of like a tech giant
not understanding what an influencer's like wheelhouse is.
Like, you're the biggest YouTuber on the planet. You must be funny, right?
Like, I don't think he's that funny. I think he's like a good businessman
and like a cool hype guy. Here's the thing, it almost feels like they,
it almost felt like they understood wheelhouses in that they were subverting them.
Like, they did it really well to like go to the fact
with Snoop, with Snoop is like a DM. That's a really good subversion of like,
where is wheelhouses? He's like, hey, he's like this rapper
and people love him for a bunch of different reasons. Let's make him a DM, because that's kind of hilarious.
That was sort of like a funny kind of a subversion.
But making Mr. Beast a man who has the terrible condition
that prevents him from smiling or he will die, making him the face of comedy.
Yeah, very strange. It's not far away enough to be like,
oh, they're subverting what he's actually known for. But it's also not close enough to what he actually does.
Right, making Paris Hilton a detective is funny because that's never gonna happen.
Yeah, but anyways. Also, oh wait, okay, there's one thing I need to mention.
I have to mention for this specific part
was when they had Charlie D'Amelio as Coco, which they labeled the Dancing Queen
and the frickin' voice said, making sure your moves aren't sus.
If we have like a suburban dad watching the thing,
he's like, why worry about whether my moves are sus every day?
Please, help. Okay. Do you dance like you just came out of a vent
and ate a person?
What? Because that's where sus comes from from among us.
Oh, okay, jeez. Now I think it escaped that a long time ago.
Yeah, I know, but still I thought it was a funny thing to say.
Regardless, I think across the board, the celebrities playing AI things makes zero sense
because you're talking to an AI that has nothing to do with the celebrity.
The AI is not pretending to be Tom Brady or whatever.
It's just, and they even have different names. It's just expressive gifs of their face.
Yeah, it's like a slightly more technologically advanced
version of when you'd go on Omegle, hit random roulette,
and a person would hop up and be pretending to be Gwen Stefani, would just be a repeating loop
of Gwen Stefani's face. And even worse, it's not even like a loop,
it's like a bunch of clips. I saw this in the live stream.
It's a bunch of clips that they morph into each other with image morphing.
And so every once in a while, it's got Snoop Dogg kind of like doing a little laugh.
And he's like, and then it does this like weird, like any morphs into another expression
because that's a separate clip and they just like blended them together. I love that.
I'm just like, for why do I have this little video playing
in the corner so I can like pretend I'm talking? So they said, I think they said that this is an alpha.
So I don't even think it's like going to be public
anytime soon. Okay, I looked this up and the AI characters
are actually in beta. So some of the public can interact with them
and they even have Facebook and Instagram profiles. So, okay.
But they did show it, they were showing it as a proof of concept for creators and brands
to create, to show that we can create specific AI characters
to represent brands, creators.
And like, this is a trend that's happening right now with like, there's a few like niche creators online
that are doing it, that they're training AIs on their own, Grimes did it, I think.
They're training AIs on their own like tweets and texts and all these things to like talk like them.
People with simp armies. Yeah, yeah, simp armies.
Your amaranths. So yes, so they're like looking to monetize that.
But also I think that there is a practical application
where, okay, I wanna ask a podcast host,
the example he gave, I think was Andrew Huberman.
Maybe you wanna ask, oh, are you gonna have this guy on?
Are you gonna talk about this topic soon? Or like, whatever, I don't know.
And then the AI could give you information about that because it has that information.
That could be useful. Yeah, it could be useful for that,
for basically eliminating social media coordinators
as a job. Well, maybe, but like, this is when I first heard that
this is the immediate thing that I thought of. And limiting, probably eliminating a lot of customer support.
That's what I was thinking of, was I was thinking of
there are so many goddamn sites out there
with brain dead assistants that do not help me at all.
The first thing I type in every time I get to them is talk to an agent.
If Meta can sell them a service that actually works,
so I also don't have to talk to human beings, but I can still be served, I'm all for it.
Right, yeah. And I think that AI was always,
that was kind of one of the most obvious use cases since ChatGPD came out was like,
oh, those chatbots on the websites suck, and this will make them better.
Calling them chatbots is generous. Sure, but having that trained specifically
on a specific brand and the personality of the brand
and all that stuff, I think that is a good use of AI.
I would love to see Wendy's customer support.
They're just like meming on you, they're just like, they're just denigrating you,
the whips up. Bitch, you want a burger?
Sorry, I can't help you with that. Why don't you go stuff your face with some more nuggets?
Your mother doesn't love you.
All right, on that note,
lastly, real quick, the Ray-Ban smart glasses.
Camera's better, it comes in more styles, it's lighter, but yeah, I am genuinely interested
in how this is gonna play out. Yeah, that thing they showed with the thing
that blew me away was the, it can help you repair a leaky faucet.
Yes. I was thinking about that and it's like,
it wouldn't just, I'm assuming when he says that,
he's not talking about just a general leaky faucet, I mean, it'll be specifically identifying
what this looks like. There's gotta be patterns of different ways
that misbehaving faucets look for different problems. So like.
And you can always send them to say in a corner for a time out.
No, I just mean, instead of spending like $83 per hour
for a plumber, you can spend $200 on a pair of glasses.
And wreck your own plumbing even more. Sorry, I'm saying that because I recently had
a plumbing mishap, a trained plumber did it wrong.
So I'm like, I don't even trust myself. But not, Google searching changed the world.
Being able to just be like, hmm, what is that thing?
And you'd look it up and now you have the information. And I think that having an agent that is able
to experience what you're experiencing and give you context directly,
Google searching is a skill right now. You go on there and your first search,
you're not gonna find what you, I mean, a lot of the time. Then you add Reddit to the end of it.
Yeah, and then that'll help a lot. Yeah, but I think that again, this is like,
we have to think about it in terms of hardcore techie people
and we have to think about it in terms of not techie people at all because for them,
this is gonna change a lot. They're gonna be able to look at something
and say, what do I do here? And the other thing is, compared to something like Google Glass
is that they're making it fashionable as well as functional.
So that people can be excited about the prospect of it
and also not feel like they're standing out for being into it and being othered.
Right, they look like normal glasses. Yeah, and the thing about it is this is stuff
that it's so sci-fi. I remember watching Altered Carbon
and he was asking like an AI contact lens.
He's like, where's the best place to go to stay for the night?
And it's like, go to this hotel. Yeah, it can tell you that.
It can do that now. You know, it won't be perfect. This is the first, is it the first?
I think it might be the first real product that can do something like that.
I mean, like Google Glasses could give you
like Google search results. And I think there's some like,
I think there's Huawei or Xiaomi is doing something like this. But I think that in terms of having glasses,
obviously it doesn't have a heads up display. So that's the main limitation.
I'm guessing that, you know, you ask it something and if it has a result that you have to look at,
you can look at your phone. But regardless, I think that having,
being able to show the AI a picture directly
from your vision could be a game changer.
And now, basically we have the underlying technology here
and now we just add a heads up display to it.
I don't know. I remember. We'll have to see.
Those are available October 17th starting at $300
and which is actually kind of crazy. They announced it and then it's gonna be here real soon.
The Quest 3 is launching, it's shipping October 10th for $500.
And the AI Meta stuff, I'm honestly kind of confused about that. As with like many of the LLM based bots,
they're available in various forms of beta.
There's Bing and ChatGPT, which is probably the most available, but.
If any of my loved ones are watching and want to get me something stupid
and expensive for my birthday, there's two options.
The Quest 3 or the Ray-Bans? Glasses, yeah.
Honestly, I don't think I want the Ray-Bans. I want to try them.
The thing I'm most excited about are these Ray-Ban glasses.
I cannot stress how excited I am for them. I do not want these glasses on my face.
I'm a tech YouTuber. I'm interested in them to cover them,
not to like have in my home, because that's kind of, I don't know. It still weirds me out.
Meta, you're cooler than you used to be,
but you're still Facebook. I know who you are under there. I know you are under that weird squiggly logo.
You're moms. You're moms and aunts.
They are moms and aunts. Yeah.
Trying to friend me. He's envisioning like a big like monster
made up physically of a mass of moms.
A momotron? Yeah, but he falls.
Like that. The gnomes. Okay.
All right, that's enough of this. We went for way too long,
but hopefully this is a good episode. Thanks for watching. Talklinked, it's a thing.
It happens when we have stat holidays, basically. And we love you.
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Yeah, I'm gonna say it back. What? You're talking to me? Cut that, cut that.
My stomach is, I'm hungry.