Christina Kinne (aka XaosPrincess) wanted to seed social VR worlds with AI chatbots in order to help catalyze larger social VR gatherings, and so she created the The Quantum Bar in Neos VR, which features a robot bartender that does speech to text via Google services in order to interface with GPT 3.0 in order to create a real-time conversational interface with an AI agent. I had a chance to catch up with Kinne and lead AI engineer Guillermo Valle Perez (aka Guillefix) at Laval Virtual 2023 where their experience premiered. We talk about the development process, the MetaGen.ai community that Valle Perez co-founded in order to facilitate the combination of AI with VR, and some of the theories for how deep learning works (see Stephen Wolfram's article on ChatGPT and talk on Wolfram's "AI Will Shape Our Existence" talk and videos from the Philosophy of Deep Learning conference at NYU). We also talk a bit about some of the open ethical questions around AI, and how AI will continue to be integrated into the production and experience of social VR worlds.

https://quantumbar.ai/

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