Is AI going the same way as VR?
Artificial Intelligence is a topic that we can see more and moe often everywhere around us. Just a few days ago one of the largest computers producer Apple introduced their new operation system and new hardware machines, that together are supposed to open a new era of Artificial Intelligence. Just time will tell how successful will be this effort. Or should we better say – how ‘dangerous’ it will be?
Based on the recent article by Ted Gioia aptly named How Virtual Reality Died, we shouldn’t be too worried. In his typical way, Ted is here poking fun at the largest tech companies, namely Meta, Google, Microsoft, and Apple.
Based on the article, it has been three years in October, since Mark Zuckerberg renamed his company from Facebook to Meta, planning to introduce humanity to the virtual reality of his metaverse. Some $20 Billion later, normal people still don’t plan to this fake world.
And quite similar story has written Microsoft with their investment of $5 Billion in Hololens technology, Apple with their Vision Pro headset, or Google Glass. Neither of these atempts to relieve us from our mundane reality and instead enjoy the excitment of the virtual one, seems to be successful.
It is really clever, how Ted Gioia compares the Virtual Reality with the Artificial Intelligence. He writes:
These same four companies—Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Google—have a new dream technology built on fakery. It’s called artificial intelligence.
But their AI plans aren’t much different than the virtual reality debacle.
– In VR, we go into a fake world to interact with real people.
– In AI, we remain in the real world but interact with fake people.
This looks interesting. But is it so simple?
That is literally a ‘One Trillion Dollars Question’! Based on the article, there is an estimated investment of one Trillion Dollars going into the Artificial Intelligence.
But if we look no further than this year Nobel Price winners, things get more confused. On one side there are MIT economists Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, who got the Nobel Price in Economic Science. On the other side is the ‘godfather of AI’ Geoffrey Hinton, with the Nobel Price in Physics.