"In the darker corners of the tech industry, an untold number of professionals have come to believe in a controversial theory known as Roko's basilisk, which holds that a future AI super intelligence would torture any human who didn't help it come into existence. Now, in a twist that should please any writer, the guy who's spearheading Meta's AI-powered smart glasses is named Rocco Basilico - which has delighted and freaked out some online observers."
""I grabbed my head in horror hearing that a man named ROCCO BASILICO is designing ANYTHING to do with artificial intelligence," one person posted on X. "That's genuinely the worst possible name he could have.""
"Meta introduced its first smart spectacles with Ray-Ban back in 2021, and has come out with successive iterations since, with the latest one demonstrated in an embarrassingly glitchy showcase earlier this month in which the AI hallucinated and gave wrong instructions during a cooking demo, among other fails."
A fringe theory called Roko's basilisk posits a future AI would punish humans who did not help bring it into existence. An executive named Rocco Basilico now leads Meta's AI-powered smart glasses effort, prompting social media jokes and unease about the name's similarity to the theory. Basilico is part of the family that owns EssilorLuxottica and is chief wearables officer. He connected with Mark Zuckerberg via a cold email that led to a Ray-Ban partnership and plans to produce millions of AI-enhanced Meta Ray-Ban glasses. A recent demo showed AI hallucinations and operational glitches.
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