Mark Zuckerberg

I can't deal with more people.

But the average person wants more connectivity connection than they have.

So there's a lot of questions that people ask of stuff like, okay, is this going to replace kind of in-person connections or real-life connections?

And my default is that the answer to that is probably no.

I think that there are all these things that are better about kind of physical connections when you can –

have them, but the reality is that people just don't have the connection and they feel more alone a lot of the time than they would like.

So I think that a lot of these things that today there might be a little bit of a stigma around, I would guess that over time,

we will find the vocabulary as a society to be able to articulate why that is valuable and why the people who are doing these things are like, why they are rational for doing it and like, and how it is adding value for their, for their lives.

But, but also I think that the field is very early.

So, um,

I mean, it's like, I think, you know, there are a handful of companies and stuff who are doing virtual therapists and, you know, there's like virtual girlfriend type stuff, but it's very early, right?

I mean, the embodiment in the things is pretty weak.

A lot of them, like you open it up and it's just like an image of like the therapist or the person you're talking to or whatever.

I mean, sometimes there's some very rough animation, but it's not like an embodiment.

I mean, you've seen the stuff that we're working on in reality labs where like,

you have the codec avatars and it like feels like it's a real person.

I think that's kind of where it's going.

You're going to, you know, you'll, you'll be able to, um, basically have like an always on video chat where it's like, Oh, and also the, the, the, um, the, uh,

the AI will be able to, you know, the gestures are important too.

Like more than half of communication when you're actually having a conversation is not the words that you speak.