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Your virtual boy isn’t the internet. It pales in what it is capable of next to the internet. The internet literally connected the entire world together. It did new things. The modern virtual boy is not even in the same sport as the internet. You really just sound like a lazy conformist, which seems right for a tech industrialist pushing a product.
Why do you need me to like “AI” so much? What would that do for you? Just walk away, dumbass, you’re not converting me to your church of the virtual boy.
You say AI doesn't do new things but it does, probably more so than any other invention in human history...
I'm under the impression that you're young and that to you AI is a fad because it's just a silly toy that people use to make shitty TikTok videos; that eventually people will tire of the AI slop, it'll stop getting likes, and people will stop using it.
But that's not what AI actually is, that's just the side effect of AI.
AI can do anything you can do on a computer. If you can write code and make apps, so can AI. If you can make pictures and music, so can can AI. If you do data analytics for research, so can AI. If you use computers to scan the stars for planets, look for cancer, or research potential new forms of medicine, so can AI. And crazier, you don't even need to type. Speech-To-Text and Text-To-Speech means you can literally just talk to your computer now. You can have actual conversations with your computer. It can help you debug, design, build, and when it comes down to it, AI can actually do the work for you.
And unlike Siri you don't have to give it specific commands. "It's fucking dark in here, fix that" is something AI can understand. It'll turn on the lights
It's something straight out of Star Trek
None of us are worried about AI because it sucks, we're all worried about AI because it's so immensely powerful we're a bit scared about what it means for all of our futures.
Is AI going to bring in a new age of marvelous science where cancer is curable and every year we get what is basically a vaccine for the cold? Are humanoid robots going to make complex surgery a breeze with a 99.999% survival rate? Or are clankers going to take all of our jobs and be used in humanoid robots to invade my country?
Either way, it's not going away. It's here... people have been working on this, researching it, writing papers on it, experimenting with it, etc.... for decades and we've finally figured out how to make it work. Nobody is just throwing it away now that it's here
An obvious fucking 23 year old telling me I’m obviously too young g and stupid to understand the world around me. Sorry, kid, stopped reading there, don’t give a shit about the rest of your overzealous sales pitch. It’s alright, I knew VR was going to change video gaming at its core. We’ve all been wrong about something. Have fun with your brain rot virtual boy, but stop acting like it’s jesus.