Meta’s Smart Glasses Face Public Glitches at Connect Conference, Raising Questions on AI Readiness
Meta’s Smart Glasses Face Public Glitches at Connect Conference, Raising Questions on AI Readiness
Meta’s ambitious vision for AI-enabled smart glasses faced a public setback recently at the company’s Connect developer conference. CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that future users without such devices would be at a ‘significant cognitive disadvantage’ was undermined by a series of technical difficulties during a live product demonstration.
During the keynote address, a demo intended to showcase the new smart glasses’ capabilities quickly went awry. When a chef prompted the voice assistant for a recipe, hundreds of smart glasses distributed to the audience simultaneously activated and began chattering, creating a chaotic scene. Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth later attributed this to an inadvertent ‘DDOS’ effect caused by too many AI instances running concurrently.
Further demonstrations, including a video call, also suffered from lags and interruptions, highlighting the current limitations of the technology. Analysts like Leo Gebbie of CCS Insights point to the high failure risk and the substantial gap between presented concepts and real-world functionality. This public display of awkwardness and technical glitches suggests that while smart glasses may offer information access, they currently pose a ‘significant social disadvantage,’ challenging Meta’s long-term vision for elevating human cognition.
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