Meta’s “AI superintelligence” effort sounds just like its failed “metaverse”

Zuckerberg and company talked up another supposed tech revolution four short years ago.

history repeating

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What ever happened to this metaverse nonsense? I mean they changed the company name to show how seriously they were taking it and ... nothing.
- They may have realised that they didn't want to compete with second life anymore
  
  I think the closest thing they'd be competing with is VRChat and that's a whole other can of worms
  
  It still exists?
  
  Aren't they big enough to just buy Second Life and have a full, already-working "metaverse" waiting for them?
- It didn't create a return for VCs fast enough.
  
  Now VCs are throwing money at anybody who slaps a "now with AI!" sticker on the side of their shovelware. All aboard the money train! Who cares if it does anything useful as long as we can convince somebody to pay for it.
- the only metaverse we got is a wireless VR to watch pornhub 💀
it'll just be a one-dollar hologram from some high school kid halfway across the world

I like this sentence because it shows everything: it's all about money, and scamming or enslaving poor people everywhere.

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