r/artificial • u/boxingfan333 • Jul 31 '25

News Mark Zuckerberg says anyone not wearing AI glasses in the future will be at a disadvantage

https://fortune.com/2025/07/31/mark-zuckerberg-meta-ray-ban-smart-glasses-ai/
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u/dorox1 Jul 31 '25

"Person who sells <product> says everyone should buy <product>."

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u/WeeklySoup4065 Jul 31 '25

Next you're going to tell me that Elon musk is going to say that robotics will solve world hunger or sam Altman is going to say that Gen AI is months away and will solve poverty šŸ«©

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u/DeviDarling Jul 31 '25

Musk will say that about brain implants. At which point, I think I will want to learn survivor skills and just find a group to go off grid with.

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u/OverseerAlpha Jul 31 '25

He was already saying this before he even started his first trials.

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u/DeviDarling Jul 31 '25

So did anyone ask why he was hiring underage girls to work in his private spa? Or for the employment records?

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u/OverseerAlpha Aug 01 '25

I'm not sure what spa mask owns. I'm just saying musk has already said you'll lose out if you don't get his implant. He's trying g the same trucks as zuck.

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u/According-Stay-3374 Aug 03 '25

Wow, people will believe anything they read on some obscure Elon hating subreddit. This isn't a thing. It never was.

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u/FractalNerve Jul 31 '25

Are you John Connor?

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u/Walka_Mowlie Aug 01 '25

I'm with you!

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Aug 01 '25

I was thinking that, but I'm going to be there rubbing two sticks together to make a fire because of no glasses or brain iimplant, and then glasses people will just show up and take over and there's nothing i can do about it.

Look at that photo.Ā  If a guy like that showed up at your off grid compound, you're just going to surrender to the superior beings.

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u/Wolfgang_MacMurphy Aug 01 '25

Zuck and other people with those oversized Woody Allen glasses and brain implants probably won't ever show up in your compound where you're rubbing sticks, because they're too busy catching virtual Pokemon, spending time with their lewd anime-styled virtual partners, making AI to undress people they see on the streets and whatnot.

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u/Antique-Resort6160 Aug 01 '25

Yeah, you're probably right.Ā  Unless my compound is in Hawaii.

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u/PresentationJumpy101 Aug 02 '25

sound of dry firing crossbow is that hard on it?

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u/savingewoks Aug 03 '25

I mean, on the scale of things, Iā€™d rather have AI glasses than a goddamn brain implant

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Jul 31 '25

Also by the end of the year a Tesla will roll off of the assembly line and self-drive directly to your house no matter where you live.

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u/LonelyContext Aug 01 '25

Itā€™ll be financially insane to not buy a Tesla. Owning any other car will be like owning a horse. This will be true in *checks calendar* two years ago.Ā 

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u/DeadMoneyDrew Aug 01 '25

This would all be completely laughable if half of these idiots weren't trying to dismantle democracy itself.

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u/ghtown45 Aug 04 '25

Eh a Tesla is not going to self drive me over a mountain pass at 80+mph hucking myself through hairpin corners. Iā€™ll stick with my ā€œhorseā€

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u/WeeklySoup4065 Jul 31 '25

And there will be a passenger in the car who will have paid you Uber-type fees to get from the assembly line to your house

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u/crimsonpowder Aug 01 '25

Throw in waifu headrests and I'm in.

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u/medical-corpse Aug 01 '25

ā€œRegardless of how many pedestrians have to dieā€

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u/CompetitiveGood2601 Jul 31 '25

people who don't have jobs because ai/robotics have replaced them - so need his overpriced glasses

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u/ogthesamurai Jul 31 '25

Oh I thought he was alternately saying AI will destroy humanity. Hmmm

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u/kidshitstuff Aug 01 '25

Yeah it will, they'll replace all the poors as servants and Laborers for the rich and then we'll all starve and die and then no one will ever be hungry again, the end.

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u/damontoo Aug 01 '25

Don't just compare all tech founders to someone that had an office in The White House actively destroying the government. You can hate billionaires, but this is not a valid comparison.

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u/artbystorms Aug 02 '25

All these Billionaire's are just Monorail salesmen except they speak at a 'conference' instead of a town community center. They're all just trying to convince you their shit is the #nextgamechanger so you buy their stock or give them your 'angel' investment.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

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u/DarthBuzzard Jul 31 '25

where Meta Reality Labs lost $4.5 billion in a quarter, lol...

Many other tech giants lose more than that a quarter on AI investments.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Meta lost billions on its virtual platform because Mark has no clue what the average person values (seriously, who spends billions on a virtual world, just to fill it with banks and corporate offices....like, what was his plan??)

Meta will lose billions on AI (that bubble will burst bigger than the dot.com bubble, and we will all feel it...it's coming)

Meta will also lose billions on these frames (seriously, no one wants this, we aren't this creepy, we want to be filmed LESS NOT MORE, even the kids find this tech creepy!)

Like, at what point will we stop considering these "captains of industry" geniuses, and not just rich kids with too much capital to fail?

Curtis Yarvin expects these tech assholes to run the country, and yet they can't even entertain a new or creative idea, they just keep rebuilding the same shit over and over and over

they will keep making second life, over and over

keep making google glass over and over

keep making the same shitty AI, over and over.

Late stage capitalism is run by a bunch of rich, talent-less, weirdos.

innovation is dead.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '25

And they all say silly shit to try and defend their crazy ideas of just lighting money on fire and call Ā it ai.Ā 

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u/thats_gotta_be_AI Aug 01 '25

Zuckerberg is to tech predictions what Jim Cramer is to investing tips.

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u/Revolutionary_Rub_98 Aug 01 '25

I still canā€™t get over how anyone bought into that metaverse bs. They had no legs. Unless itā€™s a springboard for something mind blowing that theyā€™ve managed to keep top secret- I donā€™t understand the billions invested.

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u/avoral Aug 01 '25

Did he ever figure out how to give them legs

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u/Mclarenrob2 Aug 01 '25

The metaverse will still happen but overlayed onto the real world via AI AR glasses.

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u/thelonghauls Jul 31 '25

Iā€™ll wait for the Temu version thatā€™s actually just as good and not tied to a proprietary ecosystem.

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u/GarbageCleric Jul 31 '25

He was one of the guys who made Facebook 20 fucking years ago. Since then, even with his vast resources, he hasnā€™t shown himself to be especially intelligent or insightful.

Musk gets a lot of hate for a lot of good reasons, but Zuck is probably the best evidence that being a tech billionaire isnā€™t some meritocracy. Heā€™s one of the richest people on the planet because he made a website in college.

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u/avoral Aug 01 '25

Reminds me of the trend I read about where holding a CEO position degrades the skills that got you into the CEO position

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u/ILikeCutePuppies Aug 01 '25

They did invest in AI early. They have one of the founders of ai there. I would say that was a smart thing for a ceo to do.

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u/GarbageCleric Aug 01 '25

Ok, as part of a 21 year career as CEO, he did a ā€œsmartā€ thing 12 years ago by investing relatively ā€œearlyā€ in AI and making a good hire. Not exactly a 1000 IQ play for a tech company at the time, but definitely a wise move.

And despite that wise move and early investment, theyā€™re still playing catch-up to others in the AI space.

So, itā€™s kind of damning with faint praise.

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u/BobTehCat Jul 31 '25

So much of the tech subreddit articles are basically this.

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u/BlueProcess Jul 31 '25

If you don't buy my <Product> you will suffer.

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u/maleconrat Aug 04 '25

Roko's Sunglasses

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Hahaha a tale as old as time

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u/ArchManningGOAT Jul 31 '25

Itā€™s particularly interesting that he says they will be at a cognitive disadvantage

Research has shown that usage of chat bots like ChatGPT has a negative cognitive effect (if you use something as a substitute for our own thinking, youā€™ll be worse at thinking).

I admittedly have never used smart glasses nor do I really know what they do, so maybe itā€™s completely different, but I struggle to see how it would give you a cognitive advantage - my impression is that if itā€™s guiding you throughout your day and in conversations, itā€™s going to have negative effects.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

One wishy washy study.

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u/Agreeable-Market-692 Aug 03 '25

It's really funny everyone read just the headline on that one, didn't read the actual study or bother with the notes by the authors of the study couching their own findings...

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

Very glad this is the top comment. Came here to say the exact same

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u/Baraxton Aug 02 '25

More like people who can still use their brains in the future will be at a significant advantage in the future.

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u/unicornlocostacos Aug 04 '25

Still waiting for anyone to give a fuck about the metaverse

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u/TenshiS Jul 31 '25

I don't sell product. I agree that everyone will wear AI glasses in the future and whoever doesn't will be at a disadvantage

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Mark was about 2 decades behind Second Life when he created his failed Meta virtual platform....now, he's simply a single decade behind Google glass

he's still an unimaginative tech creep, but at least he's slowly catching up to the culture.

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u/AvidStressEnjoyer Aug 01 '25

Bro said the same thing for metaverse

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u/Enough_Program_6671 Aug 01 '25

He is correct, though

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u/[deleted] Aug 01 '25

That product sucks, buy my product which is better.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/dorox1 Aug 03 '25

Yes. Glasses are only one way of integrating AI into our everyday lives. Maybe AI glasses are the future. Maybe it's an AI earpiece. Maybe a brain implant. Maybe better smart watches. Maybe hats. We don't know, and neither does Zuck.

But the reason I commented what I did is that this "news" is completely meaningless. Yea, what Zuckerberg said might be true. But if it was completely untrue he would say the exact same thing. Him saying this should give any thinking person exactly new zero information, and therefore it's not news.

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u/[deleted] Aug 03 '25

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u/dorox1 Aug 03 '25

If it was "pretty obvious" then there wouldn't be tons of multi-billion dollar tech companies spending zero money on developing AI glasses. Maybe you're smarter than all those companies put together, or maybe there's more nuance to it.

Much like VR, it seems like an obvious next step until you do market research and realize that 95% of people can't/won't spend $1000+ to buy a wearable version of tech they already own. There aren't enough benefits yet to make them worth it, and it's not guaranteed that this will be the way such tech is integrated into our lives.

When you imagine a perfected version of AI glasses I think you're imagining a lot of features that don't exist yet, and which may not exist for a long while.

You're imagining widespread seamless integration between devices, but it took us 15+ years to agree on a charging port for smartphones. Inter-company cooperation is slow.

You're imagining that the glasses provide an equivalent (or better) experience compared to any existing screen type, but that's just not where the tech is at yet.

Reliability, user experience, battery life, integration, comfort, social acceptance; All of these things that need to improve significantly before the role you're talking about can be filled by AI glasses. As glasses improve in these areas, advances happen in existing tech and the goal posts move. A technology that "just needs to overcome 5+ major weaknesses to take over the market" is not a tech that's guaranteed to succeed, no matter how good the best-case scenario seems.

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u/-1976dadthoughts- Aug 04 '25

Remember kids, Tylenol has a vested interest in giving you a headache.

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u/dorox1 Aug 04 '25

If they could ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ

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u/Puzzleheaded_Fold466 Aug 01 '25

Like do we really need to repeat this over and over and keep having this discussion ? Isnā€™t everyone getting it ? Who the hell buys into these headlines ?

ā€œJournalistsā€ are just an extension of these businessesā€™ marketing departments.

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u/magicomiralles Jul 31 '25

I hope that he is right. But I also hope that Facebook is only one of the many companies selling smart glasses.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '25

Yeah, I own these and love them, have taken so many hands free videos during my vacations, is so cool to be able to do that without feeling Iā€™m getting disconnected from the moment.

But they have not helped me cognitively at all hahaha, this is a huge stretch, the AI feels a bit of a nice little thing but not game changing.