AI, Intellectual Property, and the Next Big Thing
Introduction The recent news of Microsoft and Google integrating their large language models into their respective productivity suites marks a significant milestone in the rapidly evolving world of artificial intelligence (AI). While AI has been used for autocomplete and recommendation features for a number of years, this new development will revolutionize how we perceive ourselves…
“Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?” “Thou, O Queen, art the fairest in the land,” said the mirror. Narcissus Narcosis Technology can be seen as a form of imagination that projects our collective unconscious into material reality. This was true from the first use of stone tools, the adoption…
This recent article on the long history of the “Metaverse” reminded me of a commencement speech that the late, great author David Foster Wallace delivered at Kenyon College in 2005. It went something like this: One morning, an older fish was swimming past two younger fish. “Morning, boys,” the older fish nodded, “how’s the water…
The radical shift in gaming today is the large number of roles that a player can choose. As we become more involved in our games we’ll look for expressive identities to communicate with friends. In this next stage of visual computing you are the interface.
“Game engines have moved rapidly beyond games to be interactive high-fidelity graphics and environment engines. They provide the foundations upon which the true next generation of interactive experiences such as Sweeney’s Metaverse can be built.”