Back to episode — Episode 2755 CWSA 02/19/25
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king the other day about the discrepancies in the Social Security database that DOGE found. And I think a lot of people were interpreting it as that they found corruption because there was indication that there were a lot of death fields that were set to false or something as if they never died. And it would give you the indication that there were Social Security numbers that can be used for illeg…
← Previous segment →uckerberg is trying to make big. So he's been working on this for a number of years. He's got $60 billion into it so far. And it's been working since 2020. So $60 billion. I think it might be the major, possibly the major thing that Meta is working on. And they released their first advertisement and it was so pathetic that they had to pull the advertisement. It was just on Instagram. And it showed the little virtual reality world, you know, as if you were looking at it if you were in the virtual reality. And the characters look like cartoons with movements that look like had not been well planned. So as people sitting in a chair who just literally looked like cartoons and their arms would be floating like this. Why?
Now here's the problem. That might be an example of the very height of what virtual reality can do because you know there are limits on hardware, there are limits on processors, there are limits on memory. If you take into consideration all the physical computing limits trying to create a full existing virtual world with lots of characters and stuff, it might be really, well not might be, it's really hard to do. So it might have been just the best that can be done with current technology. However it has the very bad luck of coming at the same time that AI can produce photorealistic images on demand. So my brain just like almost every one of you says, wait a minute. There's a virtual reality product that they plunked $60 billion into it, one of the top technology companies in the entire world, and it doesn't look like it's photorealistic. Your brain just can't accept that.
So even if it might be the very best you could do within that domain and it's not equivalent to AI giving you a three-second clip of something photorealistic, those are entirely different levels of complexity. But my brain, my brain can't accept a cartoony weird floating person once I've seen what AI can do. Now I don't know if AI can ever fix what's happening with the virtual reality. I think the challenges are completely different there. But that is really bad luck.
But here's the fun part. So looking at these characters from the outside I can tell that they just look like cartoons. But what do the characters, if the characters were let's say autonomous, what would they think of each other? Would they thi
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nk oh there's a low resolution character that must be created by a computer? Or would it say there's a high resolution character that looks normal just like I am? Well the answer is it depends how you code it. So it might be one line of code to say each character imagines that everything they see is high fidelity. That's it. The character just has to think it's seeing high fidelity. You just progr…
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