Mark Zuckerberg Demonstrates That His AI Smart Glasses Suck And Don't Work | Defector

""Um ... there we go ... uh-oh," said Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on stage as he attempted to answer a video call through a combination of movements between a wristband and a pair of glasses. "Well, I ... let's see what happened there ... that's too bad," he continued, shortly before cutting short the live demo. The video call went unanswered."

"This took place at Wednesday's Meta Connect event, where Meta unveiled several new AI-enhanced wearables and boasted that these would soon be "empowering people with new abilities." Those abilities will include being able to answer text messages and look up information online, activities you have surely been unable to do before now and will soon find will change your life in profound ways once you are able to use the power of wearable AI."

"Earlier, YouTube chef guy Jack Mancuso took part in a demo intending to show off the functionality of the glasses' built-in AI functionality by trying to have it "help" him cook a Korean steak sauce. "What do I do first?" Mancuso asked, twice, after being met with stony silence. The robot hallucinated an already-made steak sauce, replying, "It looks like you've combined the base ingredients." The nervously grinning Mancuso repeated this dance a few more times, surrounded by untouched ingredients."

Meta unveiled new AI-enhanced wearables and claimed they would empower people with new abilities. Promised features include answering text messages and looking up information online through glasses and a wrist-worn neural band. The neural band was described as replacing keyboards and allowing users to twiddle menus by twitching fingers, characterized as the ability to send signals from the brain. Live demos experienced multiple failures: a video call attempt by Mark Zuckerberg went unanswered, and a cooking demo with Jack Mancuso produced silence and a hallucinated response about an already-made steak sauce. The demonstrations exposed reliability and accuracy problems in current wearable AI systems.

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