A New Social Media, Metaverse and More AI
- Context:
- Newest cutting-edge Inevitably, social media, artificial intelligence, and other information technologies have melded with daily life.
- Sometimes we don’t realise the importance of an enabler technology in the modern world. Many of the things we do or don’t do now would be different if the current technologies hadn’t been developed. In the past year, 2022, our reliance on technology has only increased, possibly in a way that will be more challenging to change in the future.
- With the implementation of 5G in the last quarter of the year, India was poised to make a big technical leap. We might still be waiting to see how our lives have been improved by the newest 5G technology, despite the fact that many of us have updated to it.
- IT is expected to have a successful year in 2023. As a result, there is a saturation problem with user involvement in the field of personal technology.
- Even though it is yet uncertain whether these new technologies will be prepared to be made available to users in the upcoming year, businesses are already having to reevaluate their strategy as a result.
- However, you will surely see a number of new platforms debut in front of the general public, especially those powered by artificial intelligence and the Metaverse.
What significant trends should we watch out for in 2023?
AI that is more advanced and prevalent:
- As evidenced by ChatGPT, conversational AI has finally attained its pinnacle.
- While the majority of these AI components are presently located in standalone items, making them more entertaining than labour, it is true that they are now intelligent enough to start producing meaningful leave applications.
- As an illustration of how additional products that we use every day will incorporate this intelligence in the future year, picture a version of Gmail that will not only auto-suggest but will also write your next email to the boss.
- In reality, a significant amount of the discussions we have today involve AI bots. These bots will start asking questions and departing from the pre-programmed responses as they gain intelligence.
- As AI gets increasingly integrated into our lives, we will need to either learn to be more wary of it or learn to trust it more.
Post-social time has arrived:
- This year, Twitter has taught us that social media as we currently know it may soon disappear.
- Facebook clearly struggles to remain relevant to an audience that is increasingly younger and more digital native, even if Twitter manages to weather the storm it has created for itself.
- Their perspectives on social interaction are very different; they frequently record their behaviours on noticeboards instead of using words.
- For instance, Meta recognises that it will need to look beyond its present social media platforms if it is to serve as the social connection when users, if any, transition to the Metaverse.
- There’s a chance that won’t alter very soon, though. Users that stick to short videos are currently filling the void that is appearing in the social media space up until that point. Nevertheless, that fad will pass eventually, and not all platforms do well in that market.
- Given how challenging it is to establish a fresh hook for the young, this is an excellent chance for something new to emerge, but it won’t be easy.
- While Facebook’s user base ages year after year, younger users favour developing platforms like Discord, where discussions occur more in private groups than in online town squares. The growth of these platforms is already posing a threat to well-established plans for making money off of social media usage.
Social bubbles that are darker and more confined:
- As the Internet gains additional users, particularly in countries like India, it is becoming more regionalized and multilingual.
- Search engines like Google are focusing more on the potential to support smaller, regional languages since the English-language internet seems to have reached a global plateau.
- Although this is a technological concern in more ways than one, it also presents an opportunity to test out cutting-edge innovations that can automatically adjust online content for these new users.
- In countries like India, however, this is already causing regional bubbles with distinct tendencies that are hardly ever observed at the national or international level.
- Due to the growing mosaic-like structure of users, which will push new platforms to handle more local challenges, the success of one-size-fits-all features will be even more constrained.
- Dark social behaviour is also there, and since much of it occurs in encrypted pipelines, we really have no idea what the Internet is thinking.
What’s the state of the Metaverse?
- It is unlikely that Mark Zuckerberg’s cartoonish interpretation of the Metaverse will be applied to the workplace initially.
- Given that hybrid workforces are becoming more common and travel is still not as practical as it once was, extended reality (XR) may be the answer for virtual collaboration and communication.
- As these virtual interaction tools are currently very expensive, it may be up to businesses to offer headsets and other equipment to their personnel for regular XR meetings.
- With the addition of interactivity with virtual objects, the initial implementation of this would resemble an enhanced version of video conferencing.
- Regular users can expect using a few more commercial Metaverse versions during the year.
- Finding hardware that will let you enter these virtual worlds without going bankrupt in the real world will be challenging. A smartphone or other affordable device that makes it simple for people to log into the Metaverse may be the main disruptor.
Conclusion:
- These technologies must be applied in order to enhance human connectivity, simplify people’s lives, and eventually promote the welfare of human society. This is especially relevant now that new world and IT technologies like social media, AI, and the Metaverse are developing.
- Therefore, cooperation between the government, commercial organisations, and users is necessary to guarantee that these platforms be used responsibly and to the advancement of the global society.
