Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (also referred to as “AI” or “machine intelligence”) is the domain of computer science that involves programming computers to operate in ways we perceive as intelligent.
Is the intelligence truly “artificial” or is it simply a new form of intelligence?
For many years, although chess programs could be taught to play—few people believed a computer could beat a chess grandmaster—until Gary Kasparov was defeated by Deep Blue. And then few believed a computer could beat a master at Go, a far more complex game—until AlphaGo did so.
Today, machines are using deep learning to acquire more of the capabilities that were once exclusively human: autonomous driving, recognizing images, and interpreting natural language (such as with GPT-3).
Machines are even beginning to supplement human creativity, by providing automatically-generated code, or generating scenes and character animations. This is a field referred to as generative AI.
In the metaverse, machine intelligence supports advanced interfaces that interpret our evolved expressions through speech, gesture, and even emotion; they’ll be used to simulate various aspects of the physical world; and they’ll play the role of characters and virtual beings.