The more of this I see the more I want to spend time away from screens and doing those things I love to do in the real world.

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isodev 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Same here. The moment we see the person with the keyboard on the video it suddenly becomes kind of painful to watch. All these scenes generated from actual footage someone made… it’s also kind of sad.

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MillionOClock 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love AI but I also hope it will paradoxically make people realize the value of real life experiences and human relationships.

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qingcharles 41 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It won't. This is digital heroin of the purest kind. The reason we've never heard from any alien species is that they invented this technology and then the entire population disappeared into their goonspheres and never emerged.

Quite how they stopped a line forming three decks long outside every holodeck on the Enterprise is a mystery to me.

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avaer 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Or maybe it will just make people realize the value of fake life experiences and human relationships.

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boogrpants 4 hours ago | parent [-]

The American public is no different than an American corporation; trying to extract as much allegiance and loyalty as possible for as little compensation as possible.

Your neighbors in the street protesting for comprehensive single payer healthcare? Yeah they're perfectly fine leaving your existence up to "market forces".

Copy-paste office workers everywhere reciting memorized platitudes and compliance demands.

You're telling me I could interact even less with such selfish (and often useless given their limited real skillset) people? Deal.

America needs to rethink the compensation package if it wants to survive as a socio-political meme. Happy to call myself Canadian or Chinese if their offer is better. No bullets needed.

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jplusequalt 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>I think we'll eventually get to the point where these are real time and have consistent representations

You have a dangerously low opinion of your fellow man, and while I sympathize with your frustration, I would humbly suggest you direct that anger at owners of companies/politicians, rather than aim it at your everyday citizen.

	▲	boogrpants 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Your suggestion is meaningless semantic differentiation. Those owners and politicians are the result of exposure to American communities, schools, other institutions; they do not spontaneously exist. Americans prop up the system as such Americans will defer or their faith was misplaced to begin with. And that ain't right; they're America! So the awfulness will continue until moral improves! Atheist semantics while living theist like devotion to civil religion memes.

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switchbak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe some folks (ahem) disappearing into virtual worlds is a good thing for those left behind.

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Sol- 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Dunno, I want to agree, but at the same time it's spoken like someone to whom these experiences and human relationship come easily. There are many people out there who, for some reason (anxiety, etc.), cannot easily access this part of the human condition, unfortunately.

Perhaps better to roam a virtual reality than be starved in the real world.

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koolala 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It is only detaching people from reality more. The internet used to be a window into the outside world and now AI is making it counterfeit manipulated fantasy.

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TacoCommander 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

After a lifetime career in tech, I want to turn it all off.

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isodev 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I used to think the only really essential component of a home is to have internet. It’s 20 years later, and I feel anything can be a home as long as it gets regular paper mail every couple of days.

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switchbak 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Seriously though. These cute distractions have turned into world and culture eating monsters.

	▲	shimman 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Can't wait to see this being abused to show that "the prisoners were treated humanely" or that "there are no protests in the capital." At what point to we hold engineers responsible for creating these machines? How many must suffer because no one was willing to say no?

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alex_c 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Ironically, this brings us one step closer to believing the simulation hypothesis might be true... In which case, maybe there is no real world anyway ;)

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slashdave 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Huh, yeah, the sky is blue outside and the sun is shining.

Although, I am feeling a bit lazy so let me see if I can simulate a walk.

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moomoo11 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I think this would be good for the people living in overcrowded, polluted and dirty cities in the world (let's be honest, they actually exist regardless of how that happened or why).

Maybe they can unplug from 500+ AQI pollution and spend time with their loved ones and friends in a simulated clean world?

Imagine working for 10-12 hours a day, and you come home to a pod (and a building could house thousands of pods, paid for by the company) where you plug in and relax for a few hours. Maybe a few more decades of breakthroughs can lead to simulated sleep as well so they get a full rest.

Wake up, head to the factory to make whatever the developed world needs.

(holy fuck that is a horrible existence but you know some people would LOVE for that to be real)

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switchbak 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Hook it up to an always-on fle*light, and I'm sure you'd have millions of paying customers.

Except you'll never have to leave your pod. Extract the $$ from their attention all day, then sell them manufactured virtual happiness all night. It's just a more streamlined version of how many people live right now.

I'll be running away from that hellscape, thanks.

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trenning 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Sounds similar to the black mirror ep https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

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jplusequalt 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There are posters in this very thread chain who want this reality to come to pass.

	▲	moomoo11 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I mean if I'm totally honest, it could be beneficial to me if something like this comes to be. Even in the developed world, we have a bunch of annoying people who complain/cry constantly about dumb things. They do that instead of doing something, whereas I can excuse the people trapped in hellholes overseas because it really isn't their fault they were oppressed and mistreated. They'd have their own economy and "life" and leave the rest of us alone. It would be completely transactional, so I'd have zero reason to feel bad if they do it voluntarily. If they can be happy in a simulated world, and others can be happy in the real world, then everyone wins!

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echelon 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The more I see of this, the faster I want it to go!

I'm developing filmmaking tools with World Labs' Marble world model:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJCJYdGdpHg

https://github.com/storytold/artcraft

I think we'll eventually get to the point where these are real time and have consistent representations. I've been excited about world models since I saw the in-the-browser Pokemon demo:

https://madebyoll.in/posts/game_emulation_via_dnn/demo/

At some point, we'll have the creative Holodeck. If you've seen what single improv performers can do with AI, it's ridiculously cool. I can imagine watching entertainers in the future that summon and create entire worlds before us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYH3FIFH55s

(If you haven't seen CodeMiko, she's an incredibly talented engineer and streamer. She develops mocap + AI streams.)

	▲	jplusequalt 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		>I think we'll eventually get to the point where these are real time and have consistent representations Just like how people in the 50s thought we would have flying cars and nuclear fusion by 2000.

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adventured 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Most people don't have access to anything particularly nice in the real world.

It's reality privilege. Most of humanity will yearn for the worlds that AI will cook up for them, customized to their whims.

	▲	jplusequalt 4 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		>Most people don't have access to anything particularly nice in the real world. What data/metric are you drawing from to arrive at this conclusion? How could you even realistically make such a statement?
	▲	lins1909 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		What a nonsensical take, good lord.