This might finally stop AI transcript

H [sighs] I want to go home. [laughter] >> The intros keep getting like >> I can't Well, because there's no hardware news. It's all freaking AIO. All right. So, today we're covering a few things. Obviously, it's AI moving too fast. The AI industry and developers think so, but of course, politicians are all knowing and well intentioned politic politicians. and Jensen Sun Wang is like, "No." CEOs potentially answering support tickets at Xbox.

Steam Frame is here for a small fortune and a $40 Soulslike game launching this fall. You guys remember last week when we talked about the researchers that were starting to kind of like blow the whistle and say, "Hey, we need to pump the brakes on AI because it's moving too quick, particularly like the Frontier models." Um, well, apparently he's not the only one. So, what's funny here is over the last week, we've we've had some progression on this story.

So, some of the biggest names in AI have suddenly started saying the same thing that we need to slow down the frontier models. Um, anthropic CEO Dario Amodai, I don't know how to say his last name. I'm probably mutilating. I don't really care. But, Anthropic CEOs Daario Amodai is calling for the industry to pace the frontier. Open AAI Sam Alman agrees and Elon Musk agrees. You notice how they all agree after their own developers blow the whistle?

They were never going to do that on their own. First and foremost, don't trust anything these three say. They're all three heads, okay? As far as I'm concerned. But don't trust anything that they're going to say because it took whistleblowing from their own developers to to even bring any of this to to the public attention. Now, they're asking for things like independent safety testing and stronger government uh oversight.

Now, here's the problem. You've got Nvidia CEO Jensen Hang saying absolutely not. Donald Trump is also saying the AI doom argument is basically a hoax. >> They're just playing right into the hands of a lot of people that don't want to see it happen. And that could be political people. It could also be China. And we're not going to let that happen. It's a it's a hoax. The robots are not going to be taking over the world. >> We can spend all day analyzing that one.

Um, China is accusing the US AI companies of using safety as a way to slow Chinese competition. And you got Bernie Sanders who's saying AI, those that are pushing AI should do 20 years in prison. Now, look, I've never really agreed with a lot of what Bernie Sanders says, but I might be able to get behind that one. Okay? I'm just saying. All right, so let's break this down. There's a there's a lot of pieces to break down here.

Now, here's the thing. If you're anti- AI, don't click off. This might actually interest you. Okay? Wall Street Journal is reporting that last week, Jacob Coxin, the anthropic researcher who quit his job because he believed the industry was racing towards self-improving AI. No, not saying the industry is improving AI, but AI self-improving itself faster than we would be able to control it. So, that would be kind of like trying to put a lion in a habitat and then build the cage around the lion while the lion's already there, right?

It's going to be it's not going to work out so well. That lion's going to escape, right? >> And while the lion's learning block picking >> Yeah. and and jiu-jitsu and kung fu, it's like the Matrix, right? I know kung fu. So, there's obviously an important concern here. And it's not that chatbt is going to become conscious tomorrow. It's just about whether or not AI systems are going to be capable of improving themselves.

And that is where things will begin to progress and kind of like perpetuate itself faster than the developers would be able to keep it in the guardrail system. All right. Now, we're seeing something interesting here where the CEO of Anthropic is making a very similar argument. Now, again, I don't think the CEO I you're kind of forced to comment when former employees of yours who helped develop your beast are now saying, "Hey, we made Frankenstein's monster, but we kind of accidentally made him a little too smart." Right?

And so now you now you're Dr. Frankenstein and you're like, "Okay, I got to address this now." Right? So, I don't I don't believe these CEOs are being very genuine. I truly don't. They're they're slimy, slimy people. Okay. Now, the BBC is reporting that this anthropic CEO, Dario Amodai, is now going much further. He's arguing that the industry needs to slow the pace at which we're increasing the capabilities of Frontier AI models.

Now, he's not saying stop AI, of course not. That's like saying, "Hey, we should go out of business." Now, he's basically saying that the progress is still going to be incredibly fast. Pause for a second. If you Phil and I were talking about this yesterday, the amount of progression we've seen in just the last two and a half to three years since like if you want far AI has come, just look up the Will Smith eating spaghetti AI video and just know that was only a couple years ago versus where we are now where fake news and AI generated articles are so good that >> man, we've come a long way.

[laughter] people that are not like us who are sitting here consuming digital content all the time can really pick out the differences of being able to spot the small things that point out something is AI generated versus real it it's it's duping a lot of people and a lot of people are believing what they're seeing reading hearing and watching because of the fact that they can't tell that what they're seeing is completely fake and I would say anybody over the age like maybe the age of 60 and above are falling for this my mom absolutely ordered my mom stay off the internet because she believes everything she sees.

And so it's dangerous because I'll hear like, "Did you hear about this?" And it's like, "It's fake. It's [ __ ] fake. Please stop looking at it." And she it looks so real. Are you sure? Yes. My god, I'm sure. But we're not going to see that slow down. We're talking about like frontier models, things that like uh are being used at a government level, things are being used in a military level, things that are being used like for these, you know, these hacking stories that you've heard. where these models are being tested where they break free of their test environment and immediately go and hack other AI models and such.

We're talking about that. Now, his his concern is particularly tied to the increasing capable capability of AI agents. Now, remember, agents are designed to connect with other systems so that you can tell the agent what to do and it goes and does it. And that could be just about anything, right? You could you could make an agent log into Netflix for you and put on something or start recording something or download like you could literally do something as simple or basic as that or you can have an agent literally going and hey I want you to I want you to hack into the uh the US banking system like it can happen right so that's the thing we're talking about here now he's warning that within 6 to 12 months swarms of rogue agents could potentially cause enormous damage if capabilities continue accelerating without adequate guardrails and Anthropic O proposing external evaluators with employee level access to safety processes.

So this is very similar how like very important websites like let's just say banking institutions let's say government agencies they usually will have third-party white hat hackers come and test their sites and and their systems for vulnerabilities. And this is kind of like asking for that same thing to happen. I'm just wondering what third parties are going to have the same level of knowledge and understanding as your own AI developers when it's being developed faster than anyone can really sort of keep up with already.

So, I'm curious as to how effective the third party evaluations are going to be. I almost feel like this is just simply extending an olive branch to try and make it look like you're being careful, but I don't think they're really truly caring or being careful. Now, where it's a little weird here is that obviously his competition Sam Alman and Elon Musk are agreeing with him. Now, OpenAI says it's supporting it supports giving external evaluators access.

Now, my concern there is I've watched a lot I've watched enough Jack Ryan to be concerned that the some of these third parties could potentially be oh man, I'm going way out on a limb here, but they could potentially be nefarious characters wanting to gain access to these frontier models because of their capabilities. is like you're going to see some real Tom Clansancy type crap probably happening in the near future here because what we're seeing here is what's effectively a fully digital arms race.

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You all are fear-mongering. It's a hoax, right? I I've I've never Look, I've grown up with so many superhero movies and comic books and stuff. I've never actually watched the character arc development of a true super villain like I have with Jensen Wang. Like, I I've never really witnessed it like this. Like, we've seen politicians. politicians are kind of automatically super villains as far as I'm concerned, but I've never actually seen a corpo super villain Lex Luthther type pop up like we're seeing with Jensen here.

Now, Jensen Wang um obviously is going to push back on this slowdown because he's the one truly winning here because he's providing the most prevalent hardware to all of the US-based companies, billions upon billions of dollars at a time, hundreds of billions of dollars. Well, we've already talked about months ago the revenue stream on how GeForce is now lumped into all of the edge compute stuff, which is everything Nvidia is basically doing outside of AI now.

Now, it's like Nvidia is an AI company and then edge compute is anything that's not AI as far as Nvidia is concerned. And how that whole edge compute model is like 10% of the revenue of the entire company. So, it's obvious Jensen Sun here is only caring about lining his pockets further, right? >> No, there's still gold here. You keep buying my shovels. >> Yeah, it's like the gold rush. The only people that really made money in the gold rush were those that were selling the digging equipment, right?

That's exactly what this is. Now, Jensen's response to the whole idea of slowing down was quite literally like, nope. Now, Jensen told President Trump and this is such a weird conversation right here. Usually in a super villain movie, you have the president calling Superman to take care of the bad guy. But in the problem here is you got the bad guy and the president [ __ ] collabing in all of this. So, it's what the hell is happening now?

Now, Jensen told President Trump in a call live on the All-In podcast that people warning about AI catastrophe are basically perpetuating a hoax. No, fear of possibilities is not a hoax. A hoax is something that is intentionally designed to fool you. Right now, but they're trying to fool them into thinking AI is dangerous. No, AI has true dangers. We know this. This has been proven. So to call it a hoax already is completely gaslighting and just belittling those that have a legitimate concern, including those that developed it.

Guess what? Jensen's not a developer. He hasn't developed crap. He didn't even develop any of the [ __ ] they're selling. He's just he's was just the one dealing with the the other seuite execs. He's not even the one designing this [ __ ] He's just the one out on media tour promoting it because he's a I can't think of the words to properly insult Jensen like that. Nothing seems good enough of an insult. The point is he is nothing more than an egotistical celebrity CEO that cares more about his own status than anything else.

That is where Jensen is. And I was praying at Compyex I'd be able to come face to face with him because anyone that like encounters him, he he immediately like acts as if the person that he's talking to is a huge fan of his. And I would have absolutely let him know otherwise. like I really don't give a [ __ ] about you or your company, right? I I that would have been so much fun. But the problem is you can't get within 100 feet of the guy cuz he's like the president when he walks around in Taiwan.

Anyway, but no, on this podcast, he had President Trump call in and here's his quote. We're going to make sure that everybody wins in the AI race in America. Every industry, every company, every state, every people. >> Good. Well, I feel strongly about it and I have the position that can do something about it. He already knows the words to say to pull Trump's strings. America, America, America, America. Right? That's all Trump has to hear to get on board with anything Jensen has to say.

What I love is the fact that just this time last year, we were talking about the fact that Nvidia was getting tariffed into the ground. Now, suddenly they're best buddies. So, and then but the year before that, Nvidia had a no political contributions uh rule within the company. So, man, is it funny how fast things can change. Anyway, uh Jensen to be fair is not saying that AI has zero risk. His argument is much more about not allowing the fear of what AI might eventually do to stop development today because from Nvidia's perspective, this isn't just software.

It's infrastructure, its data centers, it's GPUs, it's energy, and it's an enormous industrial race. It's also an enormous mountain of cash. Um but anyway, Nvidia doesn't make money when AI companies slow down. And that is the entire motivation for Nvidia in all of this. You don't need to know anything other than the fact that it is quite literally driven by greed. Nothing else. That is purely it. In fact, as if you needed more evidence, and we'll talk a little bit more about this in a separate video, the reason why all the 5090s disappeared wasn't just because they were becoming the poor man's LLM development GPU for small development firms and small, you know, independents.

It was because of the fact Nvidia recognized that the silicon being used to sell it to gamers for $2,000 was minuscule versus taking that exact same die, that exact same CUDA core count, etc., and plopping it into the now announced 5500. So, all of those 5090 cores have become basically redistributed before making its way to board partners and vendors that create a 5090. They've been reallocated to the new RTX Pro 5500, which is basically a poor man's Blackwell 6000 card, 6000 Blackwell card.

So, it has 84 GB of GDDR7, which is exactly what's in the 5090, but it's 2 and a half times what you currently have in the exact 5090. Uh, but it's ECC RAM. So, they took the same exact core package, plopped it into a PCB, added a different memory structure on there that's a little more designed around AI, and are now selling that for 2, three, four times what the MSRP of the 5090 was. That is where it went. Pure greed.

More examples of Nvidia saying, "Fuck gamers." Don't forget, Jensen has no problems turning his back on where he came from. Remember, AI is the house that GeForce built. And it's like, "Thanks. Now you're [ __ ] evicted. get out of the house is what he's basically telling gamers. Anyway, that was a side rant. We got a separate video coming out about that. The crappy part is we don't have a lot of like competition here.

None. Like even AI, even AMD has turned its back on you. So, what are we supposed to do, right? Anyway, moving on. President Trump is taking an even harder position. He's essentially framing AI as a geopolitical arms race. And his argument is if America slows down and China doesn't slow down with us, that's a problem. Obviously, we know if there if AI can pose national security problems, then all the fears that we're hearing about potential AI are legitimate.

So, you can't on one hand say it's a hoax, it's not that dangerous, blah blah blah, but we're going to weaponize it over here, and if anyone else gets it, that's bad for national security. So, which is it? That's like saying you have a less than lethal nuclear bomb, right? China isn't exactly jumping on the pump the AI brakes um bandwagon right now has responded directly to Amodai's proposal arguing that this push to slow frontier AI development is particularly about blunting China's progress and creating a more favorable regulatory environment for American AI companies.

Anyway, Tom's Hardware is specifically pointing out that China's daily, which is a an outlet, is calling out US efforts in blocking Chinese AI development, both through hardware and by blocking Beijing's access to the latest Nvidia chips and software with amodized model uh multiple accusations of illegal distillation of Claude by Chinese AI labs as as an example. Um, I'm not going to sit here, we have more in this article.

I'm not going to sit here and keep going over the AI versus American thing. I mean, obviously, it's geopolitical. We know this. Um, but enter Bernie Sanders. As much like here's the thing. Like I said, I I am pretty anti- politician. Like I love seeing the arguments and people that try and claim they understand or they claim to know me politically. No, you don't. Trust me. Everything. If I actually sat here and just vomited all of my political beliefs, uh, I would offend everybody because I don't belong subscribe to any of all y'all's ways of thinking. and Bernie Sanders being one of those people that tends to drive me insane when I read the things he says.

However, I can kind of get behind this one a little bit. I just think it'd be very very difficult to actually ever turn into law. And I think it's more of a feel-good bill to make himself feel better uh and his followers than something that's ever going to actually happen. But he's basically proposing that while some people are asking for slower development, he's asking for criminal penalties. So Bernie Sanders and Senator Greg Kazar, I believe that's how you say his name, have introduced the Ban Artificial Super Intelligence Act.

I love it. There's like banan everything, banan it all. Anyway, uh which would establish a moratorium on developing artificial super intelligence. Now, the proposed penalties can reach 20 years in prison for people who violate the moratorum, which according to USA Today is the most extreme AI related legislation to date. Could you imagine that? You're in prison, you're wearing your orange jumpsuit, right? You're sitting there in the cell block, right, at the little table and it's like you're in there with murderers and you maybe people that rob and cause other people pain and injury and what are you in here for?

Oh yeah, I I murdered a guy. What are you in here for? I developed AI. It's [laughter] just so >> I wrote an agent to order me a burrito. >> Yeah, >> I used chat GPT. [laughter] Now, the reason why Sanders is saying that the uh penalty should be so high is because he's basically comparing AI as being potentially more dangerous than nuclear weapons. So, while AI leaders are saying maybe we should slow down, we have some government saying maybe we should make it a federal crime and then we've got others saying it's a hoax.

Anyway, it says a proposal. It is not current law. So, it's important to point out that I this is why I feel like it's a feel-good bill, not anything that's going to ever actually happen bill. can't imagine how you would even enforce that. I really can't. Um anyway, so why all this now? According to Business Insider, there's another question being raised around the sudden urge to slow down or slow AI down that's worth talking about.

It's the why now, right? That's so the sudden wave of AI safety warnings is happening at a very interesting moment in the industry. Now, Business Insider argues that the timing of these uh calls for restraint is convenient for companies facing increasing scrutiny, enormous infrastructure cost, investor pressure, and potential IPOs. It raises the possibility that calls for regulation over slower development could also have strategic benefits such as shaping the rules, limiting the competition, or creating [snorts] breathing room.

So what is being looked at here is these calls for slowdown could quite honestly be a manipulation tactic by these companies to say wow look at the lead we've got over anybody else if we now get everyone to say hey we need to slow down we maintain our lead and it makes it harder for anyone else to catch us. So it's almost like one of those how do we how do we make lemonade out of these lemons and it's like well yeah we we call for the slowdown.

Now, there's another wrench thrown into all of these this this cog works here, and that is the fact that some of these companies are about to try and go public with IPOs, which means, you know, New York Stock Exchange and the S&P 500 in international markets, and maybe these companies have potentially hit a wall where they are naturally slowing down because of their current data center compute power, their current slowdowns of data center infrastructure buildouts. because we already know municipalities, states, counties, and huge regions are absolutely pushing back on data centers and hundreds and hundreds of them have been banned and non-permitted uh even though they've already got the hardware for it.

So there's there's slowdowns that are happening either through their own inability to push through or the buildout not allowing them to push where they need to. So it gives this slowdown before the potential IPO an excuse for them to lean on when the IPO goes public and then suddenly it's like why aren't you making the progression that we thought you would like? Well, the government said we had to slow down. So it gives them just this real copout to be able to still go public without it looking like any of the slowdown that they may be hitting behind, you know, closed doors, they can just pin it on the government saying they're slowing us down.

So it's really three things happening right here. And here's the thing. A lot of people are going to want to try and point at one of these and say that's why you can point to all three of these and say these all exist at the same time. Number one, AI is becoming powerful enough that we need to slow down and make sure we can control it. Boom. Easy to everyone. I think everyone can get on board with that. Two, slowing down could mean giving competitors, particularly China, an enormous technological advantage. also could be true because we're talking about legislature and and the United States capabilities of generating AI and and progressing AI through a American AI companies.

China, look, I'm not xenophobic. I I don't look at China as being the boogeyman. So many people here do manufacturing wise. Obviously, China, Taiwan, and all of of Asia have did just have taken over everything the US has said. It's too much environmental impact here for us to manufacture in the US. So obviously they picked up the slack and there's a reason why China is the number one manufacturer in the world magnitudes orders of magnitude over anyone else in the world.

Um if there's a opportunity there for them to catch up with deepseek and and maybe push further that's a real fear that obviously the US government would have. So especially if we're talking about the idea of weaponizing AI. So there's no doubt that that's a legitimate concern for many people. And then three, the companies asking for regulation and safety are also companies that stand to make an absolutely insane amount of money from the AI revolution.

So they've they they want to maintain their lead, like I said. So they have a huge vested interest in AI becoming um as profitable as possible which means they need to also play ball with the rules and the field at which they're playing ball on that includes a regulatory commission that could now be affecting their ability to continue making this money in the future. So naturally if they push back too hard then the regulations might become tighter.

So they've kind of got to play ball at the same time. Now, all three of these things absolutely can exist at the same time. And I think that that's what we're seeing right here. These this these are kind of like the three the three ven diagrams right now of the major things that are happening. Although it's probably more like 25 different circles overlapping what's happening right here. Um but here's the thing now. This I don't personally believe this is going to turn into like AI is now building robots.

So we have the robot army versus the humans army all matrix. Um, I just think this is there's a lot of unknowns, but we've seen enough evidence that this could potentially be something that can be quite disruptive, more so than it already is. I mean, look at what just the hardware side of AI has done to the economy. Just the hardware side. And that's before the agents and stuff start potentially doing real harm if they become loose, weaponized, hacked, whatever.

Because don't forget everything we're talking about here could also be accessed by nefarious people to do real harm. It's it's it's true. It's not fiction. Although everything we've heard about up to this point, especially people my age group, have grown up on movies of AI destroying humanity. It's always been a fun fact or fun fiction story. But we're kind of out of the fiction era now and we're into reality here. The question is nobody really knows what that reality could potentially be here.

So the last question I'm going to ask for you guys, I want you to comment down below is who should get to decide the speed limit of this? The companies that are building it, the government's regulating it, the countries competing to build it, or the people who are actually going to have to live with whichever comes out uh the other side. And by the other side, we mean the other side of the AI revolution. So I think for me, it's number four.

I think the people should have a bit of a say on this. All right, enough of that. Geez, there's only one main story today because that was basically the duration of two. Um, rapid fire news. The PlayStation Blackout, did the protest work? No. I got some hate mail because I was like, look, I'm sorry you guys' little cute little protest didn't do anything. And I got some hate mail from people like, wow, man. I waved to belittle us for trying to make change.

Look, I'm all for making change. I could also go out in the street with a sign and start yelling at the top of my lungs. And you know what? Everyone's going to ignore me as they drive by. It's exactly what happened with this. I don't believe protests that have an end date have any effect. How is this so hard to understand? Why would Sony go, "Oh my god, they're going to protest for a week. What do we do during that week?" So, I am anecdotal.

I have absolutely no data to go off of. But you know who does have data to go off here is senior director of and video game industry adviser at Sirana, the leader in market research and analysis for video games stated that there was quote no significant change at all in player count or engagement in their tracking. And that's according to a post he put up on Blue Sky. You can go find it yourself. I'm all for protests.

The problem is a protest with an end date doesn't do anything. It has to be the uncertainty of the future that makes a protest do anything. This brings up the fundamental problem of how do you effectively revolt against a digital ecosystem without inconveniencing yourself more than the corporation. You can step away, but Sony still controls the ecosystem, your game library, and everything you've purchased. So, uh, it really it just it's unfortunate.

I'm all about protests, but it just this this one didn't do anything. This was again kind of like the bill I talked about with Bernie Sanders. This was a feel-good thing. You participated in it. You feel like you did something, but the data, the actual data at the end of the day does nothing. All my satire and, you know, rubbing you the wrong way aside, I like to have fun with some of these comments. But there's a real reason why I think the Blackout did nothing.

A couple of reasons. One, let's let's think about the core PlayStation group, the core gamer. It's not the 45year-old, right, that come home come comes home from work and and plays video games. It is the teenager that comes home from school and throws it on and plays, like I said, maybe Madden, maybe uh some some NBA 2K or something like that, right? It's the It's the early 20-year-old that's not online on a PC soaking up all of the Reddit garbage or even been aware of this blackout because they're not living their life online like us basement dwellers.

They're just going on about their business, flipping on their PlayStation and playing some games. In fact, if we look at the data of that same analyst that was asked about whether or not the blackout did anything, they actually have the data of what the most games like what games were played and logged into the most during the blackout. Number one was Fortnite. Enough said. Number two, Roblox. Yeah, I'm sure all you 48-year-old males out there coming home from work play Roblox.

Sure, some of you are, but most of you are not. The other reason is that Blackout week was during the Call of Duty Modern Warfare 4 beta. Like the remaster beta. So master beta. Get it? The remaster beta. Anyway, >> so mature. >> Maybe I am going home and playing Roblox after this. I don't know. Don't [ __ ] judge me. Yeah, I'm going to play some Fortnite as Roblox at 6 or 7 tonight. [laughter] H that's it. I'm [ __ ] >> Okay.

Okay. So, anyway, you know, if you felt good about it, great. You didn't move the needle. Sony doesn't care. And now it's up to you to decide what you're going to do. Are you going to log back in? I had I had one person message me on Twitter to basically air his grievance over my take on this article. He basically said, "I logged out and I haven't logged back in." Good. That's how you protest. That's how you do it, sir.

You're doing it right. Everyone else is the one that's like, "Okay, one whole week till I can play my games again." And it's like, you know, you're not you didn't do anything. Speaking of doing things, the Xbox CEO is apparently answering support tickets. Now, this comes to us via IGN. Uh, imagine having your support ticket answered by a CEO. This isn't the first time I've heard of this. I've heard of plenty of companies whose CEOs get down and dirty into the nitty-gritty part of the business to get a better understanding.

That's how CEOs should do it. You shouldn't need to go on undercover boss or some crap like that to understand how your business is running. Come down out of your ivory tower a little bit and come and see what's happening on the ground level of your business. And that's exactly what Asha Chararma has been doing. Um, also according to the Wall Street Journal, she spends a few hours every month personally going through and responding to Xbox support tickets, she's using those tickets to understand problems across Xbox.

Everything from individual games to hardware issues and a and broader ecosystem problems. This matters because Chararma is trying to understand the problems from a player's perspective rather than just getting a filtered report from whatever department owns the platform. And that's that's how it should be done. I think most people have been pretty happy with her performance so far as she moves to Xbox. Unfortunately, she's been given a ship that is full of holes that she's trying to plug as fast as possible with a parent company that really doesn't care about it anymore.

So, it's kind of it's difficult to see this happen where this is the state of affairs for Xbox, but it's going to take some time to see whether or not she can really make change and whether or not she's going to be allowed to make change. That's the really crappy part here. Valve Steam Frame has launched at $1,059, making it one of the most expensive VR headsets we've seen outside of the Apple 30,000 plus whatever dollar that thing costs.

Um, anyway, remember when Valve was supposed to make PC games uh PC gaming hardware more affordable? We all know how the Steam Machine launch went. And since the Steam Machine launch till now, this has clearly been affected price-wise as well because this also shares components and hardware that is being gobbled up by all the AI beasts. So, the pricing kicks off at $1,59 for a 250 GB base model and climbs to,300 for the 1 TBTE edition.

And on top of that, the essentials will cost extra like a $29 power brick and a $50 aergonomic comfort kit like the strap kit. Now, it functions as a standalone V Steam OS VR headset. Think of like how the MetaQuest and all that is like I think the Quest 3 is the latest one. So I still have one I've never taken out of the box to be honest. It's upstairs. Anyway, uh it's a standalone gaming headset. It doesn't have to be plugged into a computer or anything like um you know the Rift and stuff did.

Now, not only is it a standalone headset, it can also play games directly from your gaming rig using a dongle that also allows for uh fiated rendering technology where basically it does that by tracking your eyeballs. So if you move your eyes around in the headset, that is where the fiated rendering happens, not just where your head is physically turning to by using inside out tracking or any sort of lighouses or anything like that.

So it's pretty neat technology for the price. Um, if you compare it to Apple's headset, it's a it's a third of the price, but uh still trending very upward when it comes to pricing here. Anyway, um GTA 6, even Twitch is preparing for the potential crisis they might see in terms of bandwidth for those that are going to be streaming GTA 6 when it launches in November on console. So, this comes to us via Kotaku. GTA 6 hasn't even launched yet, and Twitch is already preparing for it to basically take over the platform.

Now, Twitch CEO Dan Clancy is anticipating a massive surge in sitewide traffic once GTA 6 drops, likely drawing lapsed viewers back onto the platform. So, they're basically thinking GTA 6 might bring a lot of people back to the platform that haven't been consuming Twitch content. Um, creators will be coming out of the woodworks to create content. So, it's going to be a pretty big hit to the system. And they also believe that um when GTA 6's online component comes to comes to market that that's going to severely uh explode the platform probably in a good way and a bad way.

Um now even though uh Rockstar has not officially confirmed the multiplayer aspect which is it's expected to come next year according to Dan Clansancy based on conversations he's had with Rockstar. But Rockstar hasn't officially announced when the multiplayer component is coming. But again based on the conversation and chats that Dan Clancy's had with with Rockstar believes it's coming next year. Also too we believe PC is coming next year.

Obviously, hopefully they do port it to PC, and if it does, that's going to also reignite a fire on the platform, probably. Anyway, last story here. Valor Mortise, it's not a disease, although it kind of sounds like one. Uh, it is a $40 Soulslike game launching this fall. And here's the crazy part. This is a new AAA title. It's very Soulslike. It's set in an alternative history Napoleonic 19th century environment. Just announced it's going to cost $40 hairs.

Anyway, $40. And the reason isn't because it's a smaller game. They believe that basically the competition taking place this fall GTA [clears throat] 6 is also meaning that they're going to have to compete for gamer attention. It comes from One More Level, the studio behind Ghostrunner and has roughly a 20-hour campaign. The developers say they believe it has the quality and production value to compete with full price games, but they're launching it into uh an incredibly crowded fall.

I want to stop here for a second. They say it can compete with full price game. Do you remember when 40 bucks was a full price game? So the fact that a $40 game is being called a nonfulpric game, I don't think you should look at a certain price is determining whether or not it's a full price game. It should be does the money equal the value and the play time you get of the game. If you believe it's a $100 game, charge a h 100red bucks for it.

If you believe it's only a $40 game, charge 40 bucks for it. Don't put this arbitrary number that determines what a full price game is versus a nonfulpric game. But maybe it'll uh help get other developers to realize if it's an extremely popular product and it does well at 40 bucks, maybe other people can look at bringing some of their prices down. Anyway, I'm going to get on out of here now. Our camera's actually running out of recording space and I realize I talked about AI for 17 hours.

It feels like it. It's a non-stop conversation, but anyway, which story this week resonated most with you? For me, it's the uh criminal charges for AI development, which I think sounds very totalitarian, but whatever. You know what? I'm gonna go with it. What's your favorite story this week? All right, guys. If you're pouring a cold one or something, it's probably a necessity. I'll be right there with you right after the end of this programming.

All right, we'll see you next week. [sighs and gasps] Yeah. [sighs] Huh?