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I wouldn't write it off so quickly. Content creation tools are a bottleneck of historical and existing "metaverses," which generative AI kinda revolutionizes.

I wouldn't write it off so quickly. Content creation tools are a bottleneck of historical and existing "metaverses," which generative AI kinda revolutionizes. Now, I don't think Facebook could even make a 2009 Spore quality metaverse, but I think they are still going to try.

pipeline_peak 4y ago
2009 Spore didn’t even end up to be Spore lol. Make a 3 eyed monster with claws! Sorry Maxis, it isn’t 1999 anymore…wrapping it up in a Civ clone doesn’t cut it.
- brucethemoose2 4y ago
  I was thinking of Spore Galactic Adventures specifically, which is a very early and oddly unknown crack at a "game maker game" kinda thing.
wkat4242 4y ago
Yeah exactly, I was just basically saying the same. Developing content is the biggest barrier right now. AI will revolutionize this.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  Good point. In the early days of web there was some VRML or something like that. I tried it out but in the end it fizzled fast, maybe because it just takes too much code to represent virtual reality. But so how in particular do you think AI could create the metaverse?
  - brucethemoose2 4y ago
    Its going to (further) democratize content creation. Think of a novelist who could produce a whole interactive movie by themself, or an engineer who could roughly prototype a vehicle in minutes. But don't get me wrong... its going to be awful for anything real-world. And companies like Meta wants us mindlessly scrolling through feeds in VR, not making cool stuff ourselves.
    - galaxyLogic 4y ago
      I assume AI generated metaverse would have to consist of some kind of "markup language" describing the data-structures that make up the metaverse. But markup language is still about computation, describing the computation needed to render the metaverse. Then while the AI can easily generate syntactically correct markup, we can't easily specify what we want that output of that computation to be. Perhaps some entertaining random game-worlds? But is that really useful for anything? Some entertainment yes, but how will it actually accomplish something useful, is my question.

pipeline_peak 4y ago

2009 Spore didn’t even end up to be Spore lol. Make a 3 eyed monster with claws! Sorry Maxis, it isn’t 1999 anymore…wrapping it up in a Civ clone doesn’t cut it.

brucethemoose2 4y ago
I was thinking of Spore Galactic Adventures specifically, which is a very early and oddly unknown crack at a "game maker game" kinda thing.

wkat4242 4y ago

Yeah exactly, I was just basically saying the same. Developing content is the biggest barrier right now. AI will revolutionize this.

galaxyLogic 4y ago
Good point. In the early days of web there was some VRML or something like that. I tried it out but in the end it fizzled fast, maybe because it just takes too much code to represent virtual reality. But so how in particular do you think AI could create the metaverse?
- brucethemoose2 4y ago
  Its going to (further) democratize content creation. Think of a novelist who could produce a whole interactive movie by themself, or an engineer who could roughly prototype a vehicle in minutes. But don't get me wrong... its going to be awful for anything real-world. And companies like Meta wants us mindlessly scrolling through feeds in VR, not making cool stuff ourselves.
  - galaxyLogic 4y ago
    I assume AI generated metaverse would have to consist of some kind of "markup language" describing the data-structures that make up the metaverse. But markup language is still about computation, describing the computation needed to render the metaverse. Then while the AI can easily generate syntactically correct markup, we can't easily specify what we want that output of that computation to be. Perhaps some entertaining random game-worlds? But is that really useful for anything? Some entertainment yes, but how will it actually accomplish something useful, is my question.