Rizwan Virk

It becomes semi-intelligent.

And then the companies that created those shut down, which is something that happens in the tech industry all the time.

And people are like trying to keep these AI pets alive.

What do we do with these?

But one of the features that the AI pet has, so remember it runs around in a virtual world, one that we created.

But there's a feature where you can download it into a robot body.

So a physical robot body of a dog, right?

So you get your AI pet from the metaverse and you have it download.

And what happens is that the AI pets are like, this sucks.

Like I can't teleport anywhere.

I can't do anything in this world that I can do in my virtual world, right?

So they actually prefer to be in this freeform virtual world.

And there's this debate about whether you need a body

or not to be fully conscious or to reach AGI, artificial general intelligence.

It's still kind of an ongoing debate, I think, within that world.

Yeah, it really is.

And part of the reason why I ended up writing about this and talking about this subject in general was because it brings together these different threads of how we search for truth, right?

Right.

I mean, religion is a search for truth.

Philosophy is a search for truth.