AI Chat Assistants Are Cool and All, but Gaming Will Be a Much Larger Driver of Web3 Adoption

TL;DR

AI assistants as Web3 education tools are neat, but they’re only temporary solutions to the blockchain space’s ease-of-use problem.
How do we find a permanent solution? Learn from past technologies!
Take the iPhone for example – it didn’t require that much consumer education, because we’d all been using mobile phones, internet browsers, iPods and cameras for years.
What’s going to be Web3’s version of this? Our bet is gaming.
It’s a concept we’re already used to, has raised $7B over the past 18 months, and continues to pull big name talent from the Web2 space.

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AI = knee pads. Gaming = packing tables made out of doors.

Confused? Lettuce explain…

Have you heard the story of Jeff Bezos and the packing tables made out of doors?

Back when Amazon first started, the team was packing/shipping books from the basement of Jeffrey’s house – which meant kneeling on concrete all day.

As the days passed, their knees started to bruise, and it became clear a better solution was needed.

Jeff was about to go out and buy everyone knee pads, when a colleague suggested they put a couple of old doors on legs and use them as packing tables, instead.

AI assistants as Web3 education tools are the ‘knee pad’ solution of the blockchain space.

Crypto.com just announced one that they’re calling ‘Amy’, Binance has its ‘Sensei’ assistant – hell, we even made one!

But here’s the thing:

A good user experience = not having to read the instructions.

So these A.I. assistants are just temporary fixes to are larger usability problem.

How do we find a permanent solution? Learn from past technologies!

Take the iPhone for example – that was a BIG moment in tech history. But it didn’t require that much consumer education. We’d all been using mobile phones, internet browsers, iPods and cameras for years.

So when the iPhone combined them all – it felt new, yet familiar.

What’s going to be Web3’s ‘packing table made out of doors’ solution?

Our bet is gaming, because:

It’s a concept we’re already used to.
It has raised $7B (as a category) over the past 18 months.
It continues to pull big name talent from the Web2 space (like EA co-founder Jeff Burton, or Epic Games’ Mike Seavers).

So, yeah…

AI = knee pads. Gaming = packing tables made out of doors.