AI does not need the Metaverse, but the Metaverse needs AI
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The more we use generative AI, the closer we get to the makings of a metaverse. An extended reality beyond our dreams will not be drawn by a team of CGI artists, but by deep learning algorithms influenced by artistic engineers.
The talking head video below was generated from a single photo: my LinkedIn headshot (which was also AI generated).
This phenomenon demonstrates how the training sets for data can be human-created and synthetic alike. The literal building material for virtual worlds and the characters living within them will be a mixture of human creativity and stochastic AI re-imagination.
The proportion of human-created content and AI-generated content will gradually skew towards more and more AI-generated content over time. Who knows if there will still be a human in the loop guiding the direction of all online content ultimately one day.
I think what we contribute as humans will only be a tiny sliver of what’s out there in the form of consumable content 100 years from now. Large language models are transformative for society and could one day be a threat to humanity itself if we’re not careful.
The scale and speed of the Metaverse, when it gets here, will be facilitated by machine learning to feed us new worlds, new shared experiences, and new intellectual boundaries to dissolve.
It will also introduce a host of new threats, which digital forensics experts like me, private companies like the one I work for, and INTERPOL (The International Criminal Police Organization) endeavor to defend against.
If the AI innovations that we’re experiencing already in the year 2023 is any indication, the social and business landscape will be unrecognizable by the end of the century.
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Jerry Bui is Managing Director of Digital Forensics within FTI Consulting’s Technology segment focused on forensic technology and risk & compliance issues (all opinions his own). Jerry is a Certified Fraud Examiner and has over 20 years of experience in digital forensics, ediscovery, automated risk assessments, dashboard compliance monitoring, and investigative analytics. Jerry’s team provides evidence acquisition, expert witness, and strategic consulting services to law firms and corporations. Connect with Jerry on LinkedIn, Twitter and TikTok.
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