Showerthoughts @lemmy.world Hossenfeffer @feddit.uk 7h ago

The only good thing about 'AI' is that no-one is talking about the fucking metaverse anymore...

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Ai could have a lot of benefits. Just not in the hands of megacorps
- And not when it requires a crazy amount of resources to run.
  
  If its not in the hand of megacorps that implies that it s "lightweight"
I don't remember people talking about the metaverse except for mocking the legless mii inspired avatars.

There were a lot of ads pretending to be articles.
The current TechBro fetish, just like the Metaverse was, and the NFTs, and the Crypto.

When the bubble burst, which will be the next TechBro fetish?
- Only, NFTs and Crypto are relatively accessible; anyone can get in on the game. The Metaverse is a monopoly.
  
  The bubbles are still going, BTW. Bitcoin prices are currently higher than they have ever been, thanks to America re-electing the Fascist Orangutan.
  
  The Metaverse is the invention of Neal Stephenson in his book Snow Crash. He incidentally also invented the word cyber space IIRC.
  
  It's cool, I want it. Not the crap that fuckberg tries to push on people like used bubblegum but the real thing.
  
  A shame VR makes me vomit...
  
  Metaverse is just a VR implementation, like Second Life or VRChat. My point is: In a broader sense it's not a monopoly; only if you are hellbent on wanting a feature only that implementation offers, you have no choice.
- Quantum computing. It would have already been but it still has a very nerdy, no real-world application vibe.
  
  Well the real world application is breaking nearly all existing encryption.
  
  Criminals and spies are going to have a field day once it becomes practical.
Metaverse 2 - now with AI!
- But is it on the blockchain?
  
  metaverse 3 will use ai 2 which is on the blockchain
VRChat is still slowly growing in the background.

The metaverse that was the hype you despise isn’t the metaverse people in VRChat want. Mark really destroyed the term.
We can have AI control our metaverse avatars so we can ignore them both.
the meta verse is peak, just not from Facebook. looking forward to whatever comes after vrchat.
The meta verse was kinda fun to talk about, though. Because it was a train wreck.

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