Futurist Predicts AI-Powered ‘Digital Superpowers’ by 2030
Unanimous AI’s founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a “wave” of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly “as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives”…
“[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences.”
They will be unleashed by context-aware AI agents that are loaded into body-worn devices that see what we see, hear what we hear, experience what we experience, and provide us with enhanced abilities to perceive and interpret our world… The majority of these superpowers will be delivered through AI-powered glasses with cameras and microphones that act as their eyes and ears, but there will be other form factors for people who just don’t like eyewear… [For example, earbuds with built in cameras] We will whisper to these intelligent devices, and they will whisper back, giving us recommendations, guidance, spatial reminders, directional cues, haptic nudges, and other verbal and perceptual content that will coach us through our days like an omniscient alter ego… When you spot that store across the street, you simply whisper to yourself, “I wonder when it opens?” and a voice will instantly ring back into your ears, “10:30 a.m….”
By 2030, we will not need to whisper to the AI agents traveling with us through our lives. Instead, you will be able to simply mouth the words, and the AI will know what you are saying by reading your lips and detecting activation signals from your muscles. I am confident that “mouthing” will be deployed because it’s more private, more resilient to noisy spaces, and most importantly, it will feel more personal, internal, and self-embodied. By 2035, you may not even need to mouth the words. That’s because the AI will learn to interpret the signals in our muscles with such subtlety and precision — we will simply need to think about mouthing the words to convey our intent… When you grab a box of cereal in a store and are curious about the carbs, or wonder whether it’s cheaper at Walmart, the answers will just ring in your ears or appear visually. It will even give you superhuman abilities to assess the emotions on other people’s faces, predict their moods, goals, or intentions, coaching you during real-time conversations to make you more compelling, appealing, or persuasive…
I don’t make these claims lightly. I have been focused on technologies that augment our reality and expand human abilities for over 30 years and I can say without question that the mobile computing market is about to run in this direction in a very big way.
Instead of Augmented Reality, how about Augmented Mentality? The article notes Meta has already added context-aware AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and suggests that within five years Meta might try “selling us superpowers we can’t resist”. And Google’s new AI-powered operating system Android XR hopes to augment our world with seamless context-aware content. But think about where this is going. “[E]ach of us could find ourselves in a new reality where technologies controlled by third parties can selectively alter what we see and hear, while AI-powered voices whisper in our ears with targeted advice and guidance.”
And yet ” by 2030 the superpowers that these devices give us won’t feel optional. After all, not having them could put us at a social and cognitive disadvantage.”
Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Unanimous AI’s founder Louis Rosenberg predicts a “wave” of new superhuman abilities is coming soon that we experience profoundly “as self-embodied skills that we carry around with us throughout our lives”…
“[B]y 2030, a majority of us will live our lives with context-aware AI agents bringing digital superpowers into our daily experiences.”
They will be unleashed by context-aware AI agents that are loaded into body-worn devices that see what we see, hear what we hear, experience what we experience, and provide us with enhanced abilities to perceive and interpret our world… The majority of these superpowers will be delivered through AI-powered glasses with cameras and microphones that act as their eyes and ears, but there will be other form factors for people who just don’t like eyewear… [For example, earbuds with built in cameras] We will whisper to these intelligent devices, and they will whisper back, giving us recommendations, guidance, spatial reminders, directional cues, haptic nudges, and other verbal and perceptual content that will coach us through our days like an omniscient alter ego… When you spot that store across the street, you simply whisper to yourself, “I wonder when it opens?” and a voice will instantly ring back into your ears, “10:30 a.m….”
By 2030, we will not need to whisper to the AI agents traveling with us through our lives. Instead, you will be able to simply mouth the words, and the AI will know what you are saying by reading your lips and detecting activation signals from your muscles. I am confident that “mouthing” will be deployed because it’s more private, more resilient to noisy spaces, and most importantly, it will feel more personal, internal, and self-embodied. By 2035, you may not even need to mouth the words. That’s because the AI will learn to interpret the signals in our muscles with such subtlety and precision — we will simply need to think about mouthing the words to convey our intent… When you grab a box of cereal in a store and are curious about the carbs, or wonder whether it’s cheaper at Walmart, the answers will just ring in your ears or appear visually. It will even give you superhuman abilities to assess the emotions on other people’s faces, predict their moods, goals, or intentions, coaching you during real-time conversations to make you more compelling, appealing, or persuasive…
I don’t make these claims lightly. I have been focused on technologies that augment our reality and expand human abilities for over 30 years and I can say without question that the mobile computing market is about to run in this direction in a very big way.
Instead of Augmented Reality, how about Augmented Mentality? The article notes Meta has already added context-aware AI to its Ray-Ban glasses and suggests that within five years Meta might try “selling us superpowers we can’t resist”. And Google’s new AI-powered operating system Android XR hopes to augment our world with seamless context-aware content. But think about where this is going. “[E]ach of us could find ourselves in a new reality where technologies controlled by third parties can selectively alter what we see and hear, while AI-powered voices whisper in our ears with targeted advice and guidance.”
And yet ” by 2030 the superpowers that these devices give us won’t feel optional. After all, not having them could put us at a social and cognitive disadvantage.”
Thanks to Slashdot reader ZipNada for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.