Post by M. Hawbaker on May 30, 2022 17:41:59 GMT
They will cuddle you, play with you and, of course, resemble you. They will require minimal resources and will cost next to nothing to bring up.
If these sound like ideal children to you, be warned: what has just been described is a virtual child. These metaverse-hosted digital babies, an artificial intelligence expert has predicted, will be commonplace in 50 years.
Catriona Campbell, one of the UK’s leading authorities in AI and emerging and disruptive technologies, made the eyebrow-raising prediction in a book published this week.
In AI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence, Ms Campbell argues that concerns about overpopulation will prompt society to embrace digital children. It is a demographic transformation that she has nicknamed the “Tamagotchi generation".
"Vitual children may seem like a giant leap from where we are now,” she writes, “but within 50 years technology will have advanced to such an extent that babies which exist in the metaverse are indistinct from those in the real world. “As the metaverse evolves, I can see virtual children becoming an accepted and fully embraced part of society in much of the developed world.”
www.yahoo.com/news/tamagotchi-children-don-t-exist-151407348.html
If these sound like ideal children to you, be warned: what has just been described is a virtual child. These metaverse-hosted digital babies, an artificial intelligence expert has predicted, will be commonplace in 50 years.
Catriona Campbell, one of the UK’s leading authorities in AI and emerging and disruptive technologies, made the eyebrow-raising prediction in a book published this week.
In AI by Design: A Plan For Living With Artificial Intelligence, Ms Campbell argues that concerns about overpopulation will prompt society to embrace digital children. It is a demographic transformation that she has nicknamed the “Tamagotchi generation".
"Vitual children may seem like a giant leap from where we are now,” she writes, “but within 50 years technology will have advanced to such an extent that babies which exist in the metaverse are indistinct from those in the real world. “As the metaverse evolves, I can see virtual children becoming an accepted and fully embraced part of society in much of the developed world.”
www.yahoo.com/news/tamagotchi-children-don-t-exist-151407348.html
