Metaverse: Ontology, Semantics and Technology
Azamat Abdoullaev
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John F Sowa
Azamat Abdoullaev
Metaverse is the next generation internet based on digital realities (including VR, AR, and MR), computer technology, internet communication technology, social networks underlined by AI/ML platforms.
More broadly, the Metaverse is a virtual reality world representing ‘real’ world experiences, such as playing, working, studying, and investing, where users can transition freely between the offline and online realms.
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Nadin, Mihai
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James Davenport
It is a very large field, these days, and there are both theoreticians and practitioners.
Many people spot bad examples, but don’t necessarily have effective counter measures.
There is the group around Floridi in Oxford, there is Bryson in Berlin, but many others as well.
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John F Sowa
AA: Metaverse is the next generation internet based on digital realities (including VR, AR, and MR), computer technology, internet communication technology, social networks underlined by AI/ML platforms. More broadly, the Metaverse is a virtual reality world representing ‘real’ world experiences, such as playing, working, studying, and investing, where users can transition freely between the offline and online realms.
On that point we agree. But I want to emphasize that the major advance has been in hardware.
By the 1990s, AI software was sufficiently mature to implement a metaverse on high-speed supercomputers. Today it's practical on a typical gaming computer.
I also want to emphasize that the AI software of 1995 was superior to the Semantic Web software of 2005. See the SW proposal by Tim Berners-Lee in 2000: https://www.w3.org/2000/01/sw/DevelopmentProposal . The "Layer Cake" diagram in that proposal and many of the documents cited in the bibliography were more powerful than what was delivered in 2005. See the discussion of the IKRIS project of 2004-2006, which produced a far better theory and tools: http://jfsowa.com/ikl . Unfortunately, funding for that project was killed by a government shutdown in December 2006.
Summary: The theoretical ideas required for the metaverse were available on a small scale in the 1970s, and they continued to be developed over the 50 years since then. The major advance that made it practical was in hardware. None of the tools developed by the SW project in 2005 are of any use for the metaverse. The deep neural nets (DNNs) of the past 20 years are an important component, but by themselves they are not capable of doing the reasoning and explanations required for the metaverse. But there is one serious weakness of the current set of tools: understanding language in context (see http://jfsowa.com/talks/contexts.pdf ) Until better context-handling ability is provided, the metaverse will not be able to explain and reason about the information it finds. Until then, the term "Real AI" will be more of a hope than a promise.
John