Meta CEO Zuckerberg envisions new era of AR glasses: SIGGRAPH

Meta Platforms (NASDAQ:META) CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed his imaginative and prescient for augmented actuality glasses that may pack a whole lot of tech into a skinny, designer body throughout a dialogue with Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang on the SIGGRAPH 2024 convention in Denver on Monday night.

He needs to ultimately have a line of AR glasses at totally different value factors relying on what duties they’re able to performing. They may have synthetic intelligence assistants in-built, and be able to a variety of skills whereas nonetheless showing trendy.

“The Ray-Bans we had, we weren’t in a position to match all of the tech into,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “We’re getting nearer, it may be two or three years away. We would like them to look nice.”

Zuckerberg additionally mentioned the influence AI is having on Meta merchandise.

“We’ll have the Meta AI assistant, however we wish our prospects to create their very own brokers,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “We name it AI Studio, it’s a set of instruments that enables each consumer to create an AI model of themselves. There’s solely a lot time within the day. We are able to’t all the time work together with everybody we have to day-after-day. However we are able to create an agent based mostly on ourselves that may work together with individuals.”

He additionally mentioned Llama 3 and Llama 4 variations will probably be extra fluid, and can not really feel like a chatbot.

“At this time’s AI is turn-based,” Huang added. “You give it an enter, and it will get again to you. Sooner or later, AI will be capable of plan.”

“One of many attention-grabbing makes use of we have seen is individuals utilizing AI fashions for help,” Zuckerberg mentioned. “We see lots of people utilizing Meta AI to role-play tough conditions. Akin to learn how to ask a boss for a promotion, this makes a judgment free zone to play out a majority of these conditions.”

He added that Fb and Instagram will proceed to implement extra AI options because the know-how develops.