To be fair (not that Zuck has ever done anything to earn it), wifi at enormous events like that can be super flaky and slow. Thousands of people hitting it simultaneously and it slows to a crawl.
They probably had an issue with the WiFi earlier at whatever convention this is that affected connectivity for all the attendees and so they’re joking around that that was the actual problem; being socially awkward enough to not realize that makes no sense outside the venue where no one else knows or experienced that.
So while their AI failed spectacularly on the global stage, I don’t think they really expected anyone to believe that “the WiFi did it”. It was a tongue-in-cheek joke because they didn’t have any other cover.
These are managed and controlled events. They would have setup dedicated wifi systems to eliminate as much interference as possible. I’ve worked at a couple of small scale public events for companies … they manage things down to the smallest details to try to make sure things work as intended. The bigger the company, the bigger the budget and the more they try to control everything.
For a company like Facebook hosting a public event like this, they would have controlled absolutely everything, including the wifi … and the only variable that they couldn’t control was the AI and what it would, or not do.
To be fair (not that Zuck has ever done anything to earn it), wifi at enormous events like that can be super flaky and slow. Thousands of people hitting it simultaneously and it slows to a crawl.
They probably had an issue with the WiFi earlier at whatever convention this is that affected connectivity for all the attendees and so they’re joking around that that was the actual problem; being socially awkward enough to not realize that makes no sense outside the venue where no one else knows or experienced that.
So while their AI failed spectacularly on the global stage, I don’t think they really expected anyone to believe that “the WiFi did it”. It was a tongue-in-cheek joke because they didn’t have any other cover.
These are managed and controlled events. They would have setup dedicated wifi systems to eliminate as much interference as possible. I’ve worked at a couple of small scale public events for companies … they manage things down to the smallest details to try to make sure things work as intended. The bigger the company, the bigger the budget and the more they try to control everything.
For a company like Facebook hosting a public event like this, they would have controlled absolutely everything, including the wifi … and the only variable that they couldn’t control was the AI and what it would, or not do.