Dave Baszucki: prediction

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…We need a Turing test quite soon, right? Agents will be everywhere, probably in less than a year, but certainly within two years. We may need a Turing test sooner than later, even if we can’t imagine it right now. I am somewhat optimistic that the more desire there is for a Turing test, the more potentially very large market there is for really good Turing tests. I’m a bit optimistic about AI fake images and photos because I do think the market’s going to evolve to go all the way back to who’s validating that image or photo. It’s almost like Underwriters Laboratories. People don’t know about this, but in the 1920s, before there was a lot of government protection for buying your new toaster or your new mixer, a private company formed to put a sticker on toasters that they had checked your toaster. When I’m on social media now, I love all the weird cats fighting with duck videos or dogs fighting with goat videos. I’m starting to get a little worried that some of those videos I’m seeing are AI-generated rather than real, and I only want to see the real ones. I’m a customer of AI validation. I only want to see the real cat-duck videos. Do you think the Mark Zuckerberg vision of the metaverse is dead, or will AI bring it back in some form? The idea that normal people would spend two, three hours a day in something like the metaverse, having fun, building things, trading with AIs, whatever.…

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