Leslie D’Monte
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Bengaluru: What must it have felt wish to be a cotton spinner or an iron maker in England within the 1820s within the midst of an industrial revolution? Exactly 200 years later, we could also be on the verge of another era of momentous change: the web revolution. With internet access expanding dramatically post the first 1990s, a slew of latest technologies have now matured to some extent where fundamental change constantly seems to be right around the corner.
On the doorstep of a fresh decade—the 2020s—what new frontiers may AI (AI) or gene editing open up? Will we soon have robot bosses? It Will mixed reality change the way we consume entertainment and sports? Will we be ready to cure 90% of all genetic diseases by the top of the decade? We take a glance at five technologies that would alter India and therefore the world. this might not be a definitive or maybe exhaustive list. But it’s an inventory of things that would change the way we live, work, and play before we expect.
Mixed reality
Imagine watching a football match, not on your TV. But on a computer game (VR) headset that streams the match life and projects interesting stats on the fly. With the assistance of augmented reality (AR). Mumbai-based VR startup Tesseract. Now owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Jio. This is promising a future like that with its Quark camera, Holoboard headset, and therefore the high internet speeds of Jio Fiber. Similarly, a Hyderabad-based mixed reality startup called Imaginate. Enables cross-device communication over VR and AR wearables for better enterprise collaboration within the industrial sector.
Despite the much-hyped yet unmet expectations. From the likes of Google Glass, Microsoft HoloLens, and Facebook’s Oculus, Tesseract and Imaginate simply underscore. How the fusion of AR and VR technologies — the mixture of which is popularly referred to as Mixed Reality or MR — is coming aged and is not any longer within the realm of just sci-fi movies like Blade Runner 2049. Where Officer K played by Ryan Gosling develops a relationship together with his AI (AI) hologram companion Joi.
For instance, AI-powered chatbots today can’t only conduct a conversation in the tongue via audio or text. But they will be made more powerful with a dose of mixed reality. Last May, Fidelity Investments created a prototype VR financial advisor named Cora. To answer client queries employing a suite of tools from Amazon Web Services. Researchers in Southampton have built a tool that displays 3D animated objects. Which will talk and interact with onlookers.
Despite the much-hyped
The Chinese government-run Xinhua press agency has the world’s first AI-powered news anchor. Going a step further, Japan-headquartered DataGrid Inc. Uses generative adversarial networks (GANs) to develop its so-called “whole-body model automatic generation AI” that automatically generates full-length images of non-existent people with high resolutions.
Nevertheless, challenges abound when dealing with MR-and AI-powered robots. Humanoids, and human avatars. For one, whenever a corporation generates human bodies and faces. Concerns over deep fakes and cheap fakes will always rear their heads. Second, data collection will continually raise concerns over security and privacy. Third, there’s always the priority regarding the fairness of an AI algorithm. When it’s deployed to try to do human tasks— like giving financial advice. Last, but not the smallest amount, there’s also the question of whether AI bots should be allowed to pose as humans. this may continually pose a challenge and opportunity for technologists and policymakers.
