The Metaverse

How do you see the development of metaverse applications? I used to be really, really, really deep into exploring the metaverse space. That's kind of what I was playing around with the most before I got really deep into AI. I think a lot of people thought there would be like, one main metaverse that would win out, but then a whole bunch popped up, but none of them really lived up to people's expectations. In my mind. The metaverse is kind of like gaming, right? I think, like, GTA 6 could end up being like the metaverse. If GTA 6 comes out and it's really, really popular and it's got like an online mode where everybody can like, sort of tailor their own character to look how they want it to look, and then they can talk with other people in that world and Maybe they implement NPCs that use AI with a large language model attached. So even when you're not talking to a real person, it feels like you're talking to a real person, because the conversation could be like, organic and real and random, and you can go and buy various items in that metaverse. The deeper you get into the game and the more money you make, you buy different houses and different cars and all that kind of stuff. I think there was like a lot of talk about tying the metaverse and the blockchain together, and I don't necessarily think that that's the way it's all going to play out. Maybe it will maybe in like something like GTA 6, the lock down any of the items that you own on the blockchain so that you can actually show that own them. I don't know if blockchain is really necessary for that, but I really think if there's going to be a mainstream metaverse that really takes off and everybody gets on board with it, it's going to come from a game like a GTA 6, and not from a crypto company that nobody's ever heard of that's trying to create the metaverse. Like, I don't think that's how it's going to play out. I could be totally wrong.