Spending enough time in San Francisco and sifting through the future of cyber may make strange items like self-driving cars and woolly mammoths start to seem standard.
People in the Marina area waited patiently in a crowded room on Wednesday night, gazing into a glowing light sphere known as the Orb, getting their eyeballs scanned for money and a World ID. World, a San Francisco startup co-founded by Sam Altman of OpenAI, hosted the event, which has come up with one of the more ambitious ( or creepy, depending on your view ) tech projects in recent memory.
The internet is about to become overwhelmed with swarms of realistic AI bots, making it impossible to tell whether we’re interacted with real people in online settings. To help users check their society online, World has developed a system called World ID. Users must stare into an Orb to sign up, which uses an app to collect a scan of their iris and sends them a special biological identifier.
Users can exchange a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin for money that they can use to buy, take to various World ID holders, or exchange for other currencies. The sign-up reward was about$ 40 as of Wednesday evening. In response to the issue he referred to as” faith in the age of AGI,” Altman presented World at the event. We wanted to find a way to ensure that people would remain special and important in a globe with a lot of AI-driven content, he said.
