My native language is Finnish, and it’s extremely good at it. Occasionally it will use some wording that seems off, but overall it’s excellent. It feels so strange to be able to converse about any topic in my own language that I’ve stuck with English just out of habit.

I've already hired someone part time to make images for a video game with Stable Diffusion. So I guess "AI cherry picker" could be one such job.

You can try Alpaca out super easily. When I heard about it last night and just followed the instructions I had it running in 5 minutes on my GPU-less old mac mini:

Download the file ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin, then in terminal:

git clone https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp  
cd alpaca.cpp  
make chat  
./chat

What is this actually running on, is it Unity?

Agreed there were more consumer-facing things affecting our lives in your earlier timespan.

I'd include these at least in your timespan:

• 2016 SpaceX succeeds landing a rocket booster back, making access to space more affordable.
• 2017 Transformer-based deep learning models, making possible GPT-3, ChatGPT, also used in Stable Diffusion.
• 2019 Oculus Quest makes VR a lot more mainstream.
• ~2020 AlphaFold, can now predict how proteins fold. A problem which seemed intractable before and will likely lead to many medical breakthroughs.

Also during the last few years electric cars have become much more popular.

Is there currently a game that’s moddable with a lot of NPC dialog where we could try to plug in GPT-3?

Something like the pedestrians in Grand Theft Auto maybe, although I’d prefer something with text only to make things easier. Maybe a visual novel / dating sim?

When we have near-human level deep learning models for things humans can do, what does this level of performance look like when applied to things we can’t do at all?

There has to be enough demand to make it good enough, and it has to be good enough for there to be enough demand.

As it gets better in each generation, there will be increased incentive and competition to make the hardware even better, in a nice virtuous cycle. As demand grows, there will be ever more VR titles for every niche, helping the growth further.

Personally I have high hopes for Quest 3 in 2023 and Quest 4 in 2025 (?) each being a big multiplier (1.5-2x?) for adoption.

I can’t my hands are shaking too much

This is the tutorial level which gently introduces you to this fact, by showing you how advances in AI led to the creation of immersive worlds, so that the truth will be easier for you to accept. We don't want you puking on our floor like Neo.