I mean.. if you don't like VR, nobody is taping a headset to you and forcing you to play games.

"AI" is just a buzzword for machine learning algorithms that take large, large, large data sets and run over then multiple times to create an interactive algorithm based on what it was taught. The people in the article are the ones doing trivial tasks for the data sets, like labeling images so a neural network could learn what a bird is, or something along those lines.

Your comment seems to have not read the article?