Rizwan Virk

And there's an old philosophical thought experiment called the brain in a vat.

And the basic idea is that you put the brain in the vat and you have all the signals coming into it that are the same signals that we're getting from our eyes, like you were saying, from our ears, from our senses, and the brain would never know the difference, theoretically.

Now, we don't know how to do that yet, but again, that's another kind of earlier flavor of simulation theory.

Now, there's a new flavor of simulation theory that came out just within the last few months called prompt theory.

And this shows you how fast AI is moving.

I mean, I mentioned World Labs and Google also has something called Genie 3, which lets you type a prompt and it'll create the world that you can kind of move around in.

And if you change the world, like if you spray paint something on the wall, it'll still be there when you go back.

So it's really creating this virtual world based on prompts.

But so there's this, some videos online, if anyone just searches for prompt theory, where they basically prompted these characters using Google VO3 was one of the first video engines that did a really good job with not just video, but with sound, with virtual actors that look like real people.

In fact, I showed a clip of this at a conference and I told people, these are AI generated characters.

And afterward they came up to me and they said, was that really AI generated?

Because you

It's getting to the point where you can't tell the difference.

But the basic idea of prompt theory is you create these videos and you tell these characters in the movie, in the videos, to basically talk about whether they're based on prompts.

And, of course, they're saying things like, I'm not a prompt.

Clearly, this is real.

I mean, look how beautiful the world is.

This can't be ones and zeros.

Or, you know, a woman saying, if a guy starts talking about the prompt theory, forget, you know, that date's not going anywhere.

Yeah, right.