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only if you are incredibly weird. but if you think so, sounds like a good start-up.

qaq 4y ago
Or lonely or bored. Want a cyberpunk cyborg dog that can speak in a voice of darth vader? Want Cara Delevingne to be your english lang tutor? Want to pair program with Linus Torvalds? Want Neytiri from Avatar to be your personal Yoga instructor?
- zabzonk 4y ago
  nope, don't want any of them, though i must admit i quite like cara.
  - qaq 4y ago
    I find it hard to believe that you can not come up with a single AR scenario that will either make learning process, work process or entertainment option more fun.
    - zabzonk 4y ago
      isn't this about vr rather than ar? i can certainly think about situations where ar would be useful, though none have been demonstrated to be viable yet - rather the reverse when you think of things like google glass.
      - qaq 4y ago
        The whole premise of my comment Meta, Disney etc overfocused on VR when AR will be way bigger market and we have the tech that will make it viable.
        zabzonk 4y ago
        i don't think that, lovely though she is, i wan't cara to pop up in my glasses (which, because of bad eyesight, i wear all the time) and no, i do not think we have the technology, particularly batteries. i will admit that if i could ask my glasses "where is the nearest atm?" and it then popped up an arrow pointing at it, i might pay for that. but that means stuffing a lot of hardware into the frames - about the equivalent of a high-end smartphone.
    - jlarocco 4y ago
      I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone. Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
      - vidarh 4y ago
        For me, I think it's that I consume text much faster than e.g. video or someone talking, and it doesn't distract me. I just want to be left alone when I want to focus and learn things. I love using ChatGPT to explore a subject now, though, because it's pure text and I am driving it, so I can totally see people who are more visual and social learners want something similar "packaged up" in an avatar.
- robopsychology 4y ago
  I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; I see it’s benefit to certain groups like the elderly but hope I never have to use such a startup
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    > like the elderly really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
    - robopsychology 4y ago
      No but I heard Alexa had proved useful for elderly loneliness and I imagine this tech will improve there - I agree I don’t see them sat in an Oculus at a gaming rig lol
  - jlarocco 4y ago
    > I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
    - paganel 4y ago
      The people in here are certainly the minority, at least for now. I hope it will remain that way, but you never know.
ChuckNorris89 4y ago
>only if you are incredibly weird Pretty sure people had the exact reaction when online dating came out thinking you must be some social outcast. Or when some people chose to WFH way before it became remotely normal and were branded antisocial for choosing to not be in the office with the colleagues. Why be such a hater? I don't get it. Just because some people are into different things than you or what society deems 'normal' doesn't make them weirdoes.
- zabzonk 4y ago
  i do think having a relationship with an ai is pretty weird, but i can kind of understand it - a meme that has been around a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru . and it doesn't mean i hate people who want to do this.
  - ChuckNorris89 4y ago
    >i do think having a relationship with an ai is pretty weird Mate, have you seen how much money onlyfans girls are raking in from just talking to simps or other lonely and desperate men online? Can be as high as millions USD per month. And they don't even do any explicit nudity for their money, they just send ludes and texts. And the texts are usually written by some people the girl hired since she can't reply to all of them. Those guys are getting taken to the cleaners. Seems like a niche that could be filled via an AI for cheaper. ChatGPT-3 had some awesome humor before it got lobotomized to be a mundane question answering drone. Could probably replace some standup comedians too.
vidarh 4y ago
If you're old enough to remember Tamagotchi, consider how attached some people got to something that basic.
- notahacker 4y ago
  I'm now imagining a "Talk with your AI-powered pets" interface that is a pseudo-ChatGPT style interface that just responds to everything you say with "woof" or "miaow" :D (I'm surprised that afaik nobody has really cracked the "Tamagotchi" pet care formula on smartphones, which seemed ideally suited to a visually and sonically enhanced version of the same basic ritual)
  - vidarh 4y ago
    I think part of the problem of doing it on a smartphone is that software-only breaks the illusion in a way that makes it necessary to go further to counter it. I think people find it harder to connect to something they see as "just software" without any embodiment to the point that we connect more easily to something "dumber" if it's embodied in some way or other or we can imagine it to be. For that reason, I suspect that to do it with a smartphone, you'd do better with a chatbot talking to users via e.g. Whatsapp or another messenger than a custom app, because people associate messengers with real people rather than a "game".
- otabdeveloper4 4y ago
  Keyword "got", that fad lasted like all of six months.

qaq 4y ago

Or lonely or bored. Want a cyberpunk cyborg dog that can speak in a voice of darth vader? Want Cara Delevingne to be your english lang tutor? Want to pair program with Linus Torvalds? Want Neytiri from Avatar to be your personal Yoga instructor?

zabzonk 4y ago
nope, don't want any of them, though i must admit i quite like cara.
- qaq 4y ago
  I find it hard to believe that you can not come up with a single AR scenario that will either make learning process, work process or entertainment option more fun.
  - zabzonk 4y ago
    isn't this about vr rather than ar? i can certainly think about situations where ar would be useful, though none have been demonstrated to be viable yet - rather the reverse when you think of things like google glass.
    - qaq 4y ago
      The whole premise of my comment Meta, Disney etc overfocused on VR when AR will be way bigger market and we have the tech that will make it viable.
      - zabzonk 4y ago
        i don't think that, lovely though she is, i wan't cara to pop up in my glasses (which, because of bad eyesight, i wear all the time) and no, i do not think we have the technology, particularly batteries. i will admit that if i could ask my glasses "where is the nearest atm?" and it then popped up an arrow pointing at it, i might pay for that. but that means stuffing a lot of hardware into the frames - about the equivalent of a high-end smartphone.
  - jlarocco 4y ago
    I'd rather just have a real person or go it alone. Maybe I'm too old or too anti-social, but using an AR or VR for those things seems kind of sad and depressing to me.
    - vidarh 4y ago
      For me, I think it's that I consume text much faster than e.g. video or someone talking, and it doesn't distract me. I just want to be left alone when I want to focus and learn things. I love using ChatGPT to explore a subject now, though, because it's pure text and I am driving it, so I can totally see people who are more visual and social learners want something similar "packaged up" in an avatar.
robopsychology 4y ago
I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; I see it’s benefit to certain groups like the elderly but hope I never have to use such a startup
- zabzonk 4y ago
  > like the elderly really? i cannot imagine strapping my late mum into some vr headset.
  - robopsychology 4y ago
    No but I heard Alexa had proved useful for elderly loneliness and I imagine this tech will improve there - I agree I don’t see them sat in an Oculus at a gaming rig lol
- jlarocco 4y ago
  > I can’t imagine wanting any AR company myself; Glad I'm not the only one. I don't see the appeal at all.
  - paganel 4y ago
    The people in here are certainly the minority, at least for now. I hope it will remain that way, but you never know.

ChuckNorris89 4y ago

>only if you are incredibly weird Pretty sure people had the exact reaction when online dating came out thinking you must be some social outcast. Or when some people chose to WFH way before it became remotely normal and were branded antisocial for choosing to not be in the office with the colleagues. Why be such a hater? I don't get it. Just because some people are into different things than you or what society deems 'normal' doesn't make them weirdoes.

zabzonk 4y ago
i do think having a relationship with an ai is pretty weird, but i can kind of understand it - a meme that has been around a bit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idoru . and it doesn't mean i hate people who want to do this.
- ChuckNorris89 4y ago
  >i do think having a relationship with an ai is pretty weird Mate, have you seen how much money onlyfans girls are raking in from just talking to simps or other lonely and desperate men online? Can be as high as millions USD per month. And they don't even do any explicit nudity for their money, they just send ludes and texts. And the texts are usually written by some people the girl hired since she can't reply to all of them. Those guys are getting taken to the cleaners. Seems like a niche that could be filled via an AI for cheaper. ChatGPT-3 had some awesome humor before it got lobotomized to be a mundane question answering drone. Could probably replace some standup comedians too.

vidarh 4y ago

If you're old enough to remember Tamagotchi, consider how attached some people got to something that basic.

notahacker 4y ago
I'm now imagining a "Talk with your AI-powered pets" interface that is a pseudo-ChatGPT style interface that just responds to everything you say with "woof" or "miaow" :D (I'm surprised that afaik nobody has really cracked the "Tamagotchi" pet care formula on smartphones, which seemed ideally suited to a visually and sonically enhanced version of the same basic ritual)
- vidarh 4y ago
  I think part of the problem of doing it on a smartphone is that software-only breaks the illusion in a way that makes it necessary to go further to counter it. I think people find it harder to connect to something they see as "just software" without any embodiment to the point that we connect more easily to something "dumber" if it's embodied in some way or other or we can imagine it to be. For that reason, I suspect that to do it with a smartphone, you'd do better with a chatbot talking to users via e.g. Whatsapp or another messenger than a custom app, because people associate messengers with real people rather than a "game".
otabdeveloper4 4y ago
Keyword "got", that fad lasted like all of six months.