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.
Quite how they stopped a line forming three decks long outside every holodeck on the Enterprise is a mystery to me.
You probably need captain approval for NSFW content. I wonder if there will ever be an AI service that is not "Enterprise" filtered.
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.
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.
Perhaps better to roam a virtual reality than be starved in the real world.
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)
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.
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!
Although, I am feeling a bit lazy so let me see if I can simulate a walk.
It's reality privilege. Most of humanity will yearn for the worlds that AI will cook up for them, customized to their whims.
What data/metric are you drawing from to arrive at this conclusion? How could you even realistically make such a statement?
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.)
Just like how people in the 50s thought we would have flying cars and nuclear fusion by 2000.