I will repeat this over and over. AI is not for you or for me, we are users of the byproduct which is money exchange. Look at search engines, google is perfect example. AI just makes it so that we users can make simple queries and get answers, Google did that too and then became this monster which makes absolutely nothing, but searching the internet is easier and billions in ad revenue.
Some may argue there are some of us power users find beneficial use of AI, but we are small subset of users who in many cases were already smart enough to do the work. I love cowork for that reason, I share code I’ve written, projects with epics and work items and cowork makes the next project just like I did. What took a week, takes hours. Time which I now spend learning the next actual thing, quantum computing.
For those who are fed up by Google’s shitty searches, try Qwant!
Kagi is also good, but it’s paid.
I tried Kagi for a month. Several times I got “we couldn’t find what you were looking for” and the limit of 300 searches a month, even if I’m not going to hit that I FELT limited. I wanted to like it but it’s not for me.
That sucks. I feel like if it can’t find what you’re looking for it shouldn’t count it. Have you tried Qwant?
Not yet, this is the first I’ve heard of it
I’ve found it to be mostly pretty good so far.
It will not stop being funny that Zuck named the whole company after this failed shit. Hope “AI” will join it in the overhyped tech graveyard in a few years
Anybody who tried VR chat instantly saw what an absolute failure the “metaverse” was. Still my most played VR game by a lot. i will never forget playing beer pong with Link or having deep technical discussions with an Australian salamander chilling on a couch.
Anyone who spent time in Second Life would know that user-generated worlds are terrible for graphical performance, because people want to stick in as much content as possible and don’t approach it in the same methodical way as a game designer would.
So in SL that gets you sims with 3 fps on a good graphics card, and people who are greyed out because their clothing complexity exceeds your graphics limits. Now imagine wearing that 3fps glitchiness in a VR headset.
That’s what got me about the metaverse too: an astonishing wealth of junk content. I got through all the games and videos and experiences I wanted in less than six months, and clearly I’m not the only one.
I do love VR documentaries though and hope those continue to thrive.
What’s a good source for those vr documentaries?
There’s a YouTuber called redlyne_ that has a video series where he goes through dead online games. It’s great content