I speak again with my friend Maroof Farook, an AI Engineer at Nvidia. [Note: Maroof’s views are his and not that of his employer.]  For the purposes of testing self-driving cars, a 100% digital version of the world's driving environment is being created AKA The Metaverse. Think an immersive virtual reality environment like Grand Theft Auto with less destruction, profanity, and mayhem. The goal? Have a self-driving AI not be able to tell if it’s driving in the real-world or a simulation. Can we fool AI into thinking it's not AI? Don’t freak out, but the Matrix is being coded as we speak.  We laugh. We cry. We iterate. Check out what THE MACHINES and one human are saying about AI CAFE: “I'm sorry, I didn't quite get that.” — Alexa “Not Lex Friedman.” — Siri “Hasta la vista baby.” — T1000 “Like tears in rain.” — Roy Batty “I’m afraid I can’t do that.” — HAL9000 “Wait! Wait! Oh My! What Have You Done? I'm Backwards!” — C3P0 “These are not the droids you are looking for." — Obi-Wan Twitter: @askaicafe Patreon: patreon.com/aicafe