Beijing, May 5 (Reporter Song Yusheng) When generative artificial intelligence has repeatedly become a hot topic of discussion, the previously hot metaverse seems to have been "robbed of the limelight". Many people feel that at present, generative artificial intelligence is like a pampered child, and the metaverse seems to be a little out of favor, and some people even assert that "the metaverse is dead".
But in the view of Yu Yuan, a director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), president of the IEEE Standards Association and founding chairman of the IEEE Metaverse Standards Committee, this is not the case.
Yu Yuan, Director of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), President of the IEEE Standards Association and Founding Chair of the IEEE Metaverse Standards Committee. Photo by China News Network reporter Song Yusheng
On May 5, the parallel forum of the Zhongguancun Forum "Internet 27.3: Future Internet Industry Development Forum" was held in Beijing. Yuan Yu said in the forum that the metaverse and artificial intelligence are a relationship of synergistic and accelerated development. A series of breakthroughs in artificial intelligence technology will greatly accelerate the development of the metaverse industry.
He judged that there are two keys to the development of the metaverse industry, one is whether the supply side can provide sufficient rich and high-quality content, and the other is whether the demand side can truly form huge demand, solve problems and create value.
"From the supply side, the big problem facing the metaverse is that we have to create a huge amount of content and have rich details. These will certainly not be possible by human power alone. Yuan Yu bluntly said that artificial intelligence generated content will greatly accelerate the development of this aspect. A large and diverse number of virtual scenes and virtual items will be created with the help of generative artificial intelligence at a hundredfold, a thousand times faster.
He further said that there is also a need for virtual characters in the metaverse to interact with users smoothly. These avatars will also be powered by generative artificial intelligence to provide deeply personalized interactive experiences and services.
On the demand side, Yuan Yu believes that in addition to providing leisure and entertainment and new job opportunities for humans, the metaverse will also play a positive role in the development of artificial intelligence.
"The further development of artificial intelligence technology, the generalization of the capabilities of large models, and even the emergence of general artificial intelligence require the real world as a training environment to obtain massive multimodal training data. But if you train in the real world, there are a lot of security risks and it's not economical. ”
The metaverse happens to provide such a virtual world similar to the real world as a testing ground. For example, Yuan Yu said that in the field of autonomous driving, it is generally "tested" in the virtual world and then tested in the real world, which has become a common practice in the industry.
The metaverse can accelerate the development of AI technology by providing such a training environment at low cost, low risk, high efficiency and diversity. He expects that "training AI in the metaverse will become a new paradigm for AI technology research and development." ”
"Based on the above observations and analysis, I believe that the metaverse and artificial intelligence are synergistic and accelerated development. On the one hand, artificial intelligence technology will greatly promote the development of the metaverse industry, and on the other hand, training artificial intelligence in the metaverse will become a new paradigm for artificial intelligence technology research and development. Yuan Yu said. (End)