The meta-universe has been around as an urban legendary technology for some time, and the science fiction book "Ready Player One" published in 2011 has described it appropriately. Until some tech giants began to invest heavily in related technologies, including virtual reality and augmented reality (VR/AR), the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI), the term meta-universe began to become popular.
Mark Zuckerberg announced at the 2021 annual Connect event that it would rename Facebook company Meta to reposition the company's "new Internet" - the meta universe.
Nowadays, artificial intelligence has become one of the most exciting technology areas. Zuckerberg said he had always wanted to research and develop the meta-universe even before Facebook was founded, and the company's Meta AI lab has been at the forefront of research in artificial intelligence and the meta-universe.
But some new directions also make people feel a little uneasy. Facebook, a social media site that still retains its name, has become notorious for its black-box algorithms, and with the efforts of the Meta AI Research Lab, artificial intelligence algorithms will become increasingly complex.
Although this is undoubtedly exciting news for technology enthusiasts and futurists, what are the practical significance of Meta AI in addition to the hype of meta-universe technology?
The high hopes for Meta AI
Although it was exciting initially, Meta AI is still years away from achieving its ultimate goal of having a fully operational meta-universe. Meta AI is a long-planned project of Meta, and the length of its development time depends on its ambitious goals.
Meta is currently in the industry leader in the AI technology competition, and many of its launches of applications compete directly with different tech giants. Meta is developing voice interaction assistants like Apple's Siri or Google Voice, and is also competing with VR game developers through acquisitions of Oculus and Hololens.
In addition, some of Meta's projects include AI-based image marking and image search algorithms, which were proven to surpass the FBI's ability to recognize images at the IEEE Computer Vision Conference. Meta AI can also generate text predictions in messages such as Google Assistant through in-depth text.
Meta Controversy faced by AI
Facebook's business has been criticized for years in terms of ethics and was accused by former product manager Frances Haugen of putting profits above security, pointing out that the company's prioritization has led to the spread of misinformation and hate speech, which often mislead more people. The company has been repeatedly accused of neglecting the negative impact of social media on teenagers and other groups.
Meta Most of the revenue comes from Facebook advertising. However, ads are valuable only if the content found by customers on the website is attractive. The report shows that Facebook algorithms unilaterally support engagement, and therefore may spread some misinformation and hate speech.
In response to these disputes, Meta announced several changes in June 2022, including:
· Responsible artificial intelligence organizations will join the social impact team.
· The AI that is committed to protecting the product team on Meta’s platform will be transferred to the product engineering team and will focus on improving recommendations and making content more relevant, including advertising and commercial services.
·Meta AI research team FAIR will join Reality Labs Research as the foundation and support to promote breakthroughs in the field of artificial intelligence through "excellent research, open science and extensive cooperation".
Meta Latest progress in AI
Meta company has released some technologies and products many times since its name change. Just in May this year, Meta announced the creation of a huge new language model that will be available to researchers around the world for free.
Meta's move is not like the typical for-profit organizational tradition, and its followers are surprised by this, claiming that the idea is to "democratize access to large-scale language models to maintain integrity and prevent abuse."
This will be the first time researchers have come into contact with a fully trained language model of this scale and scope. The move has been criticized by privately owned and funded research institutions on artificial intelligence models.
Earlier this year, Meta released its AI Research Super Cluster (RSC), the world's fastest AI supercomputer, which will accelerate AI research and help Meta build the meta-universe. The company also frequently releases new news in the field of artificial intelligence, with the latest news being the launch of an artificial intelligence chatbot. What areas will AI affect? What impact will
MetaAI have on the virtual world that is constantly evolving?
(1) Marketing
Metauniverse may involve digital clothing and world construction, and marketers must take this into account when formulating sales strategies through the Metauniverse. Game developers and marketers are no strangers to in-game marketing, showing custom skins, virtual locations, in-game ads and promotions. The metaverse is no exception.
(2)Cultural
Metaverse brings together another online subculture driven by gamers, buyers and brands serving them.
People can apply the meta universe in unexpected ways in the game. People from different cultural backgrounds can unite under common emotions to form a unique cultural phenomenon.
(3)Economic
The meta-universe will appear in a form of a shared virtual economy. People’s behavior in the metaverse may be different from that in real life, resulting in different consumption patterns.
When the metaverse is implemented globally, people from different economies will share a platform. The meta-universe may facilitate in-game trading. Of course, only time can prove how the metaverse will affect people's understanding of economics.
Take Meta AI
If it is not Meta AI, it may also be any other artificial intelligence project, but the technology competition for the virtual world platform is in progress and there is no sign of being the dominant one yet. What makes
Meta unique is its application-oriented approach, and being the parent company of Facebook, the world's well-known social media, is an inherent advantage, which allows Meta to build its artificial intelligence using a large amount of user-generated data.
Meta The development of AI does not seem to show any sign of interruption or major breakthrough, but is developing slowly and steadily. It covers a wide range, but its development may be more like an evolution than a revolution. Therefore, the change of Meta AI to the world may still require time to settle.
