Humanoid robotics and "smart" glasses are the most intriguing to me to own on a personal level
Trust/truth apocalypse is the most concerning near-term
Trust/truth apocalypse is the most concerning near-term
There was the fake Biden robocalls during the NH primaries in the US, so far that we officially know of
But really it's more of a symptom. You can fake stuff with people too. It's just more work. The question is more why the most populous nation lets this happen rather than the tools used to do it.
The problem isn't the nation. It's the cheap availability of software that produces lies at enormous, convincing scale. No one says "don't blame the tool" when talking about bombs. AI is a social bomb.
In his most recent book, Agency, he describes 'laminar agents'. They're basically uncensored multimodal LLMs that can see the world through VR glasses.
Interestingly, Neal Stephenson named his metaverse company Lamina1. I like to think he named it after the term in Agency.
Having a Hololens 2, an experience that is worth trying, just waiting for FOV to improve, and to a lesser extent for the form factor to shrink. I would use the HL2 for monitors if the FOV was there, it's really light