[vouaobrasil]

I think this step towards a more immerse virtual reality can actually be dangerous. A lot of intellectual types might disagree but I do think that creating such immersion is a dangerous thing because it will reduce the value people place on the real world and especially the natural world, making them even less likely to care if big corporations screw it up with biospheric degradation.

It seems like it has a high chance of leading to even more narcissism as well because we are reducing our dependence on others to such a degree that we will care about others less and less, which is something that has already started happening with increasingly advanced interactive technology like AI.

[dragonwriter]

> I think this step towards a more immerse virtual reality can actually be dangerous

I don't think its a step toward that; I think this is literally trained using techniques to generate more immersive virtual reality that already exists and takes less compute, to produce a more computationally expensive and less accurate AI version.

At least, that's what every other demo of a real-time interactive AI world model has been, and they aren't trumpeting any clear new distinction.

[mvdtnz]

People were saying literally the exact same thing when those crappy VR headsets were all the rage. I think we're ok.

[vouaobrasil]

So your argument is that because it didn't work once, that it won't work now? At some point, a breakthrough is made and in this case the breakthrough is a bad one.

[TaupeRanger]

This is why we never see any alien life. When they reach a sufficient level of technology, they realize the virtual/mental universe is much more compelling and fun than the boring rule-bound physical one.

[vouaobrasil]

Actually, it's that the aliens eventually get completely immersed in technology to the point where they just self-destruct due to the meaninglessness of the life they have created.