Why I wrote this book on AI Powered Metaverse – Alvin Wang Graylin

 

Alvin Wang Graylin

AI expert Alvin Wang Graylin, working at HTC, explains why he co-authored his recent book on the AI Powered Metaverse Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, in a discussion in the AI Shift Podcast.

Takeaways

• Alvin Wang-Graylin is a pioneer in XR technology.
• The metaverse is a 3D version of the internet.
• AI and XR technologies will enhance each other.
• Job displacement is a significant concern with AI advancements.
• Regulation is crucial to ensure technology is used ethically.
• Humanoid robots will become integrated into daily life.
• AI may develop a form of consciousness over time.
• Education will evolve to be more individualized and multimodal.
• The future of governance may involve AI leadership.
• As technology advances, we must focus on ethical considerations

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How AI is going to change our future - Alvin Wang Graylin

 

Alvin Graylin at MIT

AI is going to shape our future in an unprecedented way, innovation expert Alvin Wang Graylin of HTC argues in his book  Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse at his alma mater MIT.

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Living in the metaverse – Alvin Wang Graylin

 

Alvin Wang Graylin

Alvin Wang Graylin discusses his book Our Next Reality: Preparing for the AI-powered Metaverse, in Moonshots, together with Peter Diamandis, and discuss how AI and AR will affect all aspects of society in the coming future.

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Buying a mobile phone in China - Bill Dodson

Bill Dodson

China veteran Bill Dodson got his mobile stolen and took to opportunity to investigate China's fast changing and competitive battle ground for mobile hardware. A report from the shopping mall in Suzhou on his weblog. Bill Dodson:

Instead of just going back to HTC I decided to check out other brands, including domestic labels. For those who have never been to a Chinese mobile phone market, it is very much like a bazaar. Sales clerks could be selling socks and knit caps for all they care; which isn’t to say they don’t care. Instead, in general, sales staff are young, energetic and talkative, for the most part. They go to great lengths to find you a phone that matches your requirments, instead of bending your requirements to one brand. Sales staff at mobile phone bazaars typically hawk several brands, and have no resistance to placing on high-gloss glass counters phones from several competing makers. 

I checked out Motorola and Samsung phones, and took a glimpse at Sony Ericsson’s offerings. The Nokia stands seemed rather lonely, if not well staffed. It was clear Nokia was putting a great deal of attention on the China market. However, the Microsoft squares didn’t seem to stimulate much interest in the shops I visited. Motorola, surprisingly, seems to have begun a resurrection, of sorts; however, I found the version of Android and accompanying apps loaded on its phones uninteresting. 

Samsung was very strong, especially with its Galaxy offering. Its cameras were amongst the clearest, and it had the fullest line of phones with cameras mounted on the face of phones, to take advantage of apps like Facetime, to ease video calling. 

The Chinese domestic brands had breeded like rabbits since I had last bought a phone at the end of last year. Now, in addition to ZTC, Huawei, Konka, Dopod, Amoi and Lenovo were phones from online service providers: Tencent (with its QQ phones); Baidu, the Google knock-off; Qihoo 360, Netease, Xiaomi and even Alibaba. Handling these smartphones, however, was a disappointment. 

At the price point of about 1500 rmb the resolution of the cameras on the phones was sorely lacking, while their implementations of Android expressed a sense of arrested development. Of course, they were not meant to go head-to-head with the Samsung Galaxy or Apple iPhone; but were instead meant to meet demand at the low-budget end where students and country folk find their finances more constrained than the middle class. 

However, Samsung, Motorola and Sony Ericson makes at the low end were still more rugged and feature-rich than domestic brands. 

At one mobile phone market in Suzhou I wandered to the HTC exhibition, which was the most crowded in the large room. I spotted the model I had bought for myself six months before. It was a staggering 30% less expensive than half a year before. 

Now, still less than the compact model I had previously bought, were newer models that were black, thin and sleek. The HTC One V was one of them. 5 megapixel (self-focusing) camera; half the thickness of an iPhone; 3.7 inch display; Android 4.0.3. Matte black. Very cool. No. Awesome. 

I wanted one. 

And at 2,300 rmb (just under US$400), it was a great value.

More at Bill Dodson's weblog.

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Telecommunication changes for 2012 - Tricia Wang

Tricia Wang

Sociologist Tricia Wang maps out for 88-bar.com the competitive playing field between China's largest telecom providers, China Telecom, China Unicom and China Mobile. What can their customers expect for 2012?

Tricia Wang:

From the clouds to the ground, 2012 looks like it’s going to be an exciting year for mobile  industry. China Telecom is going abroad to offer mobile services for the transnational elite who travel between China and North America. China Unicom just launched a new mobile internet platform, the Wo-plus Opening System. Let’s see how long China Mobile 600 million 2G users can wait for 3G before switching to Unicom or Telecom. Now that China is the world’s largest smartphone market, how will the future of hardware and software evolve? We already have a glimpse from HTC of their new Sina Weibo smartphone. And then to top if off, both China Telecom and China Unicom may lower broadband prices! 

With all these technical and market changes, one of the big questions for 2012 is will Chinese citizens will be relieved of telecommunications costs? Or will 2012 could be the equivalent to the 1996 Telecommunications Act in the United States where institutions benefited more from telecommunication reforms than individuals? [1] We’ll have to see who benefits from thee anti-monopoly investigation. 

With the stable divisions of China Unicom, China Mobile, & China Telecom, we don’t hear of potential industry shake ups like this very often. I imagine that Chinese Telcom scholar, Eric Harwitt, is giddy with news. But luckily we have Marc Laperrouzag, so we won’t have to wait a few years for a book or paper to be published to stay up to date on the details. 

Let’s hope for faster and more equitable broadband access in 2012! 新年快乐!

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More on Tricia Wang's exploration of China's economic underbelly at Storify.

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