Recently, according to the foreign media Daily Mail, British artificial intelligence expert Catriona Campbell said in her new book "Intentional AI: Plan for Coexistence with AI" released in May 2022 that virtual children will become popular in 50 years. In her new book, she named these virtual children as electronic pet children. With the development of meta-universe technology, in most developed countries, virtual children will become part of society. Virtual children can play with you, embrace, and even help solve the problem of overpopulation. At present, virtual children seem to be a bit far away, but technological progress in the next 50 years will make virtual children present in the meta-universe almost indistinguishable from children in the real world.
Will virtual children act spoiled? Will you get upset? Can you get along well with children in the real world? Do parents want to tell stories to virtual children? Do they need to recharge them regularly? Will virtual children continue to raise virtual children when they grow up? Just thinking about these problems makes me feel that I have a broad mind and artificial intelligence can do everything, but the unique emotions and needs of human beings are really not replaced by artificial intelligence. At present, virtual children seem to be a huge leap. If this development really happens, it is a change in the rules of the technology game. Regardless of the initial intention, the current technological advancement has made virtual children on the road of becoming more realistic.
First, through the advancement of computer-generated images and machine learning technology, virtual children will have highly realistic virtual faces and bodies. Secondly, with the advancement of speech recognition and face recognition technology, virtual children can recognize parents' intentions and respond. In addition, in conjunction with the VR suit of simulation and feedback of five perceptions, parents can feed, play, and embrace their virtual children in the metaverse like real parenting. Parents can interact with virtual children in virtual scenes in the metaverse, such as parks, swimming pools or living rooms, etc. Parents can even choose the speed of virtual children's growth, talk to them, and listen to their different voices from infancy to adolescence. Virtual children are full of vitality and hope.
Parents can choose to wear VR devices and wear relevant sensory gloves on their hands to interact with virtual children. And just like real children in front of them, raising virtual children is not costly or burdened. In the future, the problem of overpopulation can be solved. If you do not want to raise children in reality and want to experience the interaction with children and raise children, then you can choose to raise a virtual child in the metaverse, bring VR devices to the metaverse anytime, anywhere and visit the children and play with the children. With the development of artificial intelligence, virtual children will also react the same as children in the real world and provide corresponding feedback to parents raising virtual children.
In the context of the meta-universe, consumers began to be interested in virtual children. The emergence of virtual children gave the meta-universe an entry point from concept to reality, and its imagination space is huge and exciting.
