I’ve seen random people on the train talking about ChatGPT. Even groups of middle aged women talking about going to a cafe and suddenly bringing up chatgpt and nobody was confused by the topic. Old people who’ve never mentioned tech to me out of nowhere talked about chatgpt.

ChatGPT doesn’t require “getting”. It just responds in a freakishly human way by standards that have existed up to now.

But literally nobody “intuitively gets” metaverse. It just looks like a crappy Wii edition of Second Life, but proponents (Facebook staff) always seem to say “no dude it’s not like that it all it’s like dude you gotta listen it’s going to dude like revolutionize dude are you listening it’s uhhhhh” and nobody knows wtf it is

The metaverse is a platform. ChatGPT is a product.

Platforms that aren't products for end users are nerdy, especially ones that don't even exist yet.

You aren't going to find an old person start talking to you about a new functions Microsoft added to the Windows SDK, but you could hear them talk about a new feature in a Windows app they use.

>It just looks like a crappy Wii edition of Second Life

The metaverse doesn't exist yet. Someone could make a product like that for the metaverse, but that is just one product. Not all products will look the same, and not all product will boolean heavy into being like second life.

The problem is that Meta did make a product like second life. It's called horizon worlds, and by all accounts it's a pretty awful experience.

They'd almost have been better off not bothering to make it.

This made me understand the metaverse less than I did before. There’s zero chance of a typical person knowing what this is supposed to be.

> Random ladies on the train are not using ChatGPT.

They most definitely are. Normies find ChatGPT absolutely fascinating for a variety of purposes, whether that's creative or just asking questions. It's basically magic to them.

Meta's "the metaverse" is just any random obscure retro PS1-style game for them.