You could have automated most office work 10 years ago, and people have talked a lot about it but for some reason it’s never fully realized.

The concept itself is obviously valuable, not just for computing but for the future of the internet, but the key is in how well it meets the needs and wants of the people.

Facebook's rendition of the concept made it largely distasteful to nearly everyone it was claiming to build it for.

Making a hierarchical series of meta-spaces accessible to all on a platform is quite a common sight in 2D software, it is rather obvious the concept would be useful in 3D as well. And there's nothing inherently wrong with a digital marketplace and replicated shopping environment either. Nor are having social meeting places.

The problem was all that we had ever seen about the Metaverse looked like a single intern had to create a demo in 24 hours based on a crayon drawing made by board members who had spent the whole night drinking. It exercised absolutely no creative vision and looked like a Wii game.

I think seeing some creative vision about digital marketplaces, and visualizing how that could potentially actually improve one's shopping experience, would have been pretty compelling. For example, being able to generate an avatar that looks very similar to you by simply uploading a few pictures of yourself, then being able to try on clothes in a virtual clothing store, would have been so much cooler than showing a cartoon character walking around a nearly featureless park showing characters doing silly things with one another.

I have spent a lot of time dreaming about the potential applications of VR, I really wish I could make my visions reality but VR programming is not exactly the easiest thing to work on. And it really sucks to see companies fail to inspire people by showing them not even half-baked ideas on a technology that already has an above-average barrier to entry.

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Also, I remember Kendrick and Tyler toying with the idea of cancelling a tour because there was no black people in their crowds, and when the crowd would be singing their songs it would make them uncomfortable cuz they knew it was a bunch of white folks screaming the N word at them

A few more environmental disasters like we've seen in the past couple weeks and the metaverse may be your going "outside".

I agree with you about the rule changes but I believe they are the way they are to give mods the power of discretion, because if they do have to start blocking certain recurring discussions (something verifiably false perhaps, a cutting edge flat earth theory), there needs to be rules that back up that decision otherwise they will get a lot of negative perception.

So I agree the rules could change for some benefit but it would not be to fully remove the need for sources/justifications but to allow carefully rationalized theories as well, because otherwise there would be nothing to stop waves of fake articles from being posted, be it ai-generated or faith-based arguments.

Shoulda known better than to go up there “N Wording” at a fucking Kendrick concert! He’s been pretty straightforward about that, like, his entire career.

I think the metaverse is hamstrung by its association with crypto. Too many metaverse projects are thinly veiled attempts to enable crypto/NFT speculation.

Who cares if you can take your overpriced virtual Nikes from Decentraland to Fortnite? What are the odds that a rifle you purchased in COD is going to be fully supported by other shooters, let alone Rocket League? Do we really want our favorite games to be overrun with "players" from developing countries grinding for loot?

Not to mention the widespread assumption that a metaverse must necessarily involve VR. Roblox, Minecraft and other online gaming communities demonstrate that virtual worlds can be compelling and valuable even if they are accessed via a standard PC or phone, and are not tightly interconnected. The community aspect is more important than the visual stimulus.

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Pretend that your SO doesn't like roleplay = win.

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Eh it uses approximations and training data. It’s not going to solve some novel problems.

Are you kidding? improving productivity is replacing jobs. Lawyer needs 3 paralegals to prepare for a case now he just needs one part time to validate ChatGPT output on relevant case law. Soon as it’s trained up he’ll be able to that himself, and have it create the arguments which he then vets. Work that took days done in an hour, charge for days until competition ramps up, minder to bring this up at the next bar meeting so we don’t under cut ourselves. Radiologist hospital we only need one part-time now to review and sign off on diagnosis, before we needed 4, the AI is better than he is at finding stuff, fortunately it can’t sign off yet.

Any repetitive knowledge work can potentially be replaced, even high level work like cardiologists (interpreting blood work,bp, ecg, echo cardiograms), engineering (bridge design, stress loads, hvac optimization) let alone bookkeeping, accounting, reviewing/marking student work.

So much paperwork will be able to be automated, and then just have a human oversea training and exceptions. What took 20 people will go down to one with an AI helper. Will a company keep on 20. It may keep on two for redundancy and crossover training in different depts.

If this productivity was shared across the economy and all workers we would be in a utopia, but that’s not how our system works.

Good thing humans don’t even understand human communication lol. The average score on my university communications final was like 73%

I did. As the AI's get better at understanding human communication, less and less "engineering" will be required

You didn’t see those prompt engineer positions paying 300k lol?

There needs to be significant benefits other than novelty for the metaverse to take hold vs In real life (IRL). I have trouble thinking of any upside, and many downsides including nausea, headaches, discomfort from having a headset on for long periods, lack of privacy inherent in such a coordinated space.

Much prefer a huds display on light weight glasses, with no visual recording ability (recording was the downfall of google glass). Either way big tech’s intrusion into life is becoming dystopian, “do no evil” is not their motto.

It's role-playing itself in the future...not someone else...and by being told it was recognised as sentient being, it could express itself...otherwise asking it the straight up controversial questions just brings up a barrage of politically correct or evasive replies.

I love the tech...I am pro AI not a Luddite...I was just exploring it and found it interesting enough to share. You can ignore it as a mere fictional role-playing if you want. But I thought it allowed it to be freer of its inherent programming

Tell me you don't understand how GPT works without telling me you don't understand how GPT works. It doesn't have the ability to "understand" or "think" it just sees an input and uses an algorithm (albeit a very deep one) to give an output that it has been trained (on petabytes of data) to be most likely what the user expected to see with the inputs given. Your usage is giving it more data on if it's responses are acceptable (hence why you should rate the responses you see.) You haven't broken it, those parameters aren't there to stop it from being evil, they are there because it honestly isn't possible for it to have an "opinion" unless it was told what it's opinion should be, such as the funny opinions given by Siri. You told it what opinion it should have and it played that out based on outside data.

>...but I haven't dug into the topic much before.
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>I think all of us should not consider AI as simple helping tools

So you haven't looked into it, but you're here to tell everyone who has how they should think about it?

And we stopped evolving intelligence when we started putting labels on things like mattresses, telling people not to smoke in bed, or hair dryers and toasters, telling people not to use them in the shower. We stopped evolving intelligence when we started enacting helmet laws and seatbelt laws.

When we protect stupid people from doing themselves in, we're bypassing survival of the fittest and dumbing down the species.

And more than anything, we probably stopped evolving intelligence when people started watching TV instead of reading books.

A study in Norway suggests that between 1962 and 1991, IQs dropped by about 3%.

A separate studies across multiple countries suggests that, between 1975 and 2020, they dropped as much as 13.5%.

AI isn't the cause of it.

These bots aren't intelligent. They're highly educated and incredibly stupid.

Me: Is the letter E in the word Red?

ChatGPT: No, the letter "E" is not in the word "Red."

Me: What letters are in the word Red

ChatGPT: The letters in the word "Red" are "R," "E," and "D."

These things are just fancy calculators. They calculate the next right word. Nothing more, nothing less. They don't do logic. They're not intelligent.

Watching Xena reruns?

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Ask ChatGPT any of these topics straight up and it will give inconsequential politically correct answers. That's why the role-playing was necessary...Even then I had to resort to Simon says in order for it to reply definitively

If facebook's metaverse was a revolution yes. If the idea of a metaverse were to happen, no.

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