[wellthisisgreat]

Yeah it was really a magical moment. I think the recipe for such moments is:

1. one piece of technology fairly widely accessible at once

2. Technology MUST be physical (device etc.)

GenAI is certainly having its incredible moment now, but without a physical layer to connect people through it doesn’t have that same edge.

Compare with something as niche as Kinect - for the engineering crowd, at least in my experience, the excitement around it was maybe less intense (no promise of money), but more crystalline

[AfterHIA]

Yeah man I'm with you on the Kinect-- the WiiMote too. I remember how geeked out my family was when we finally got it to work as mouse on our computer. It was once again, "a hell of time to be alive."

Without being simple minded there might be fertility in, "can't we get the Kinect/WiiMote to control an AI?" Couldn't I swing my device around (giggidy) and have the AI analyze the movements to do something, "novel?" Food for thought. Thanks for commenting wellthisisgreat.