How Revolutionary Are Meta's AI Efforts?

Mark Zuckerberg introduced Facebook's rebranding to Meta at the company's annual Connect event last year to reposition the company for the "new internet," the metaverse. The metaverse has been around for some time as a kind of urban legend, perhaps aptly described in the 2011 science fantasy book Ready Player One. That was until some of the biggest names in tech started investing heavily in related technologies, including virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR), Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI). Today AI is one of the most exciting technology fields to work on. Zuckerberg said the metaverse is something he's wanted to work on since even before the conception of Facebook.