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Snow Crash author Neal Stephenson on the ‘metaverse stock price’ | The DeanBeat
Neal Stephenson wants to see the open metaverse become reality. He coined the word "metaverse" in his novel Snow Crash that debuted in 1992.
Stephenson: Tim Sweeney, in that conversation you mentioned, which is a pretty interesting document – you can find it on Matt Ball’s website – he likened it to a stock whose value goes up and down. We whipped up a demo, a character called Virj from the Snow Crash universe, who we created in Unreal Engine using the Inworld AI platform. He has similar skepticism about AI, about LLMs, based on ethical considerations around the fact that these things are trained–the big models are trained on data with a provenance that isn’t fully nailed down.
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