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The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses’ new AI powers are impressive, and worrying

Meta is adding new AI capabilities to its smart glasses. Using them has been unexpectedly eye-opening about the current state of AI.

But as someone who frequently cooks with online recipes and gets frustrated with trying to unlock my phone in the middle of a crucial step, it did make me imagine a scenario where I could get seamless audio cues about what I was doing without turning my attention away from the stove. Again, this exchange was not a one-off mistake or the result of me trying to “trick” the assistant, Meta AI has yet to accurately answer a basic question about a public figure third in line for the presidency, even though it can correctly name other top government officials. I also got strange results when I asked “what’s the top political news today?” It responded with a reference to a seemingly random person’s sentencing on a drug charge.

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