Curious about how #AoIR2023 dinner tonight will work? We will have a Walking Banquet. If you check out the list of vendors you can see who will have which items out for your enjoyment. https://sched.co/1T6c2 PLEASE wear your badge. We will be checking AoIR badges at the door for entry. Entrance is on Arch Street - https://maps.app.goo.gl/diSoecaFZeftmeLg9
We're proposing a SXSW panel to discuss the reality and virtuality of AI agents in social VR at SXSW2024!
The process involves audiences voting for panels that they want to see at SXSW. The voting goes on until August 20th, so please cast your votes for our panel by clicking on the link below and clicking on the UP arrow!
Social VR allows multiple users to synchronously interact in a shared virtual space & presents an exciting future in the metaverse. While interactions mostly involve human users, advancements in generative AI have hastened the mass creation & integration of AI-controlled virtual agents in social VR. Organizations may be tempted to use this quickened pipeline to populate social VR worlds with dynamic agents, though there are factors to consider. In this panel, XR experts will explore these questions & offer tips for using AI to build social VR worlds for business, education, and health.
For scholars and students of the #history of #VideoGames, the #library at my institution - the University of #Toronto #Mississauga - holds the Syd Bolton Collection - almost 14,000 video games, 100s of consoles and systems, over 5,000 issues of game magazines, hundreds of books and literature, peripherals, and related technology, materials, and documents from the past 50 years. It is one of the largest such collections in the world. Check it out. #histodons @histodons
https://collections.utm.utoronto.ca/collections/syd-bolton-collection
More journalists making the connection. See this article by Sharon Goldman.
"Other AI experts have also pointed out, both publicly and privately, that they are concerned by the companies’ publicly-acknowledged ties to the EA community — which is supported by tarnished tech figures like FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried — as well as various TESCREAL movements such as longtermism and transhumanism. "
ICA CAT
Taylor Lorenz
Adrienne Shaw
Eric Topol
Brian Gettler
Timnit Gebru (she/her).
Brian C. Keegan, Ph.D.