Comment on Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”
GoobyMcMooby@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
LOL I still can’t believe that they were trying to sell MiiVerse within a headset as the future of communication; Where you could buy Tamadochi Life looking homes for thousands of real USD.
Basically a Zuckerberg read or watched Ready Player One and decided he wanted to own that.
They have put a ridiculous amount of R&D into it at this point but the whole metaverse idea doesn’t actually enable anything new or better than the existing paradigms.
He probably read Snow Crash (or maybe an AI summary, because he is a soulless husk) and thought it was super cool. It’s a dystopia. The book is not aspirational.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Metaverse has cost 65 billion so far. That’s the cost of making red dead redemption 2, 130 times. And it looks like a garbage version of miiverse . Who even uses it? What is the purpose?
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
And what’s even funnier is that if Facebook spent that money funding AAA VR games for their headset instead of their shitty VRChat clone they’d have an easier time growing their userbase the way they do desperately want.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
They could have funded Valve to make more VR games.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 8 months ago
I’m pretty sure you could really make a dent in the housing crisis, transit problems, food insecurity, any other real life problem of your choosing, with that kind of money. The fact that they blew it on “the metaverse” should be a crime