Mark talks about a future in which you're wearing glasses all the time to seamlessly integrate meatspace and cyberspace. I dislike the idea of having cameras pointed at everything all the time, and the idea of having such tight integration between digital and physical makes me uneasy. It feels like a subtle push to help enable NFT-style content in the longterm. Maybe this is a sign that I'm growing old, and it'll be completely natural for the younger generation.
The technological showcase is really cool though. Right now people are paying dozens of thousands of dollars for fully rigged vtuber avatars and 3D virtual chat models, but in a few years we'll probably have AI tooling that allows you to do it yourself.
The discussion of non-human avatars made me wonder what kind of fantasy avatar Mark and Lex would use. If profile pictures are any kind of indication, I suspect a large number of tech users will opt to be cute anime girls. The days of catgirl-ification grow ever closer.
They discuss an idea of having celebrities and famous people train AI models so fans can interact with them. That seems so dangerous, arguably pushing parasocial relationships to a completely new level. It feels like it fundamentally hacks the human brain. Are we going to reach a point where most interactions are mediated through various layers of AI models? Maybe I'm being too much of a pessimist...
The technological showcase is really cool though. Right now people are paying dozens of thousands of dollars for fully rigged vtuber avatars and 3D virtual chat models, but in a few years we'll probably have AI tooling that allows you to do it yourself.
The discussion of non-human avatars made me wonder what kind of fantasy avatar Mark and Lex would use. If profile pictures are any kind of indication, I suspect a large number of tech users will opt to be cute anime girls. The days of catgirl-ification grow ever closer.
They discuss an idea of having celebrities and famous people train AI models so fans can interact with them. That seems so dangerous, arguably pushing parasocial relationships to a completely new level. It feels like it fundamentally hacks the human brain. Are we going to reach a point where most interactions are mediated through various layers of AI models? Maybe I'm being too much of a pessimist...