- Bootstrap avatar from someone’s photos, audio, and videos
- Implement some kind of speech2text
- Integrate GPT-3 for dynamic conversation
- Add scripts for various moods: working out, focus, etc
Nothing here is impossible, but getting it polished is hard.
Then there’s another version, which is the AI influencer life coach. Train on their podcasts and text and video. Ask for advice at any time.
Maybe the influencer themselves gets a cut for use of their likeness?
👓Next level: integrate with AR glasses so you can see your imaginary friend in the real world
👻 Level up: integrate with other people’s AR glasses so all of you can see a shared AI ghost at the same time
🤯Level infinity: AI ghost has persistent state, does things on its own
Note: just a thought experiment, good grist for a movie, fun to see how far we can push the concepts.
With video games, virtual influencers, social networks, remote work, and augmented reality, it feels likely that something similar to the movie Her or Xiaoice will take off.
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The idea that inflation favors the digital world isn’t one I had fully put together till recently.
Basically, a rise in commodity prices is passed through to all physical products. If oil soars, flights are more expensive. But Zoom’s marginal costs don’t increase as much.
Elon is a visionary. Tweets about Woke James Bond and it instantly becomes reality. 😁
There are many who still think the US government has some reserve of competence, that the military is “based” or whatever, that the unreality stops at some unmarked door.
That illusion comes from Hollywood. The reality is that they are woke morons too. And so empire is ending.
“I am a cisgender millennial with generalized anxiety disorder.”
@andy_matuschak Most of @elidourado’s arguments for ETH are good. But it just serves a different purpose than BTC.
Ethereum is programmable finance. Bitcoin is digital gold. Even EIP-1559 won’t change that because it signals that Ethereum *has* a mutable monetary policy.
@andy_matuschak@elidourado It’s like when people used to say that Twitter was just one feature of Facebook, the status update.
Products that appear superficially similar early on develop shared cultures and use-cases and differentiate over time. So too for coins.
@andy_matuschak@elidourado Immutability (BTC) and financial innovation (ETH) are both incredibly valuable, but by their very nature can’t be the same thing.
A constantly changing and improving platform (Ethereum) is culturally different from a finished, reliable, immutable coin (Bitcoin).
Here's the first $50k in ETH for COVID relief in India.
An important feature of crypto is that it enables fast, transparent humanitarian donations from around the world. You can see the donation on-chain here: etherscan.io/tx/0x750074ebb…