Fuck AI

Did you not have any experience with reddit? You crossed the hive mind on VR and AI, and you are also getting in the way of a hate train. If a sub or post is about hating someone, that hate has to be pure, unconditional and undistracted.

But to your points: Quest. Agree. Awesome piece of tech; however Mark Zuckerberg tried to turn it into something nobody wanted: an entry into an artificial world where people could live entirely on Facebook's servers. There was so much wrong with the MetaVerse, as conceived, that it takes several YouTube videos to explain all of it, but, as a movie guy, this is my favorite primer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLItp5SiRGw

AI: Strongly disagree there is any kind of mass market for AI. Claude, the most heavily used programming LLM, which is the best use case for an LLM's mass adoption, recently tried raising prices to start to turn a profit. People started limiting their tokens or dropping the service entirely.

Another massive chunk of LLM use is people taking their AI-generated content to make a few bucks. A service that costs $4 to make $5 worth of product will naturally see huge adoption! It's not the future if that $4 is heavily subsidized. The instant the actual cost is $5 investment for $5 worth of product, that technology is as dead as aspirin suppositories.

At this point in the game, it's obvious that AI in a bubble driven by insane levels of social and regulatory failure, and Zuckerberg is just getting on the bandwagon to impress his cool billionaire friends.