The World Egg
New worlds, new humanity

Researchers have created an AI that, allegedly, has the cognitive ability of a human child at four years. I’m not convinced; the clips I’ve watched on YouTube don’t prove much to me. Anyway, it operates in Second Life, where it uses (at present) a robot avatar. No reason why it shouldn’t use a ‘human’ avatar, though, thus demonstrating that as reality and augmented reality blur with the Metaverse, we really won’t know who - or what - we’re talking to….

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have developed a smart video goggle system that records everything the wearer looks at, recognizes and assigns names to objects that appear in the video, and creates an easily searchable database of the recorded footage

Found via Slashdot, where some of the comments relating this to past cyberpunk novels are amusing.

Of course, it isn’t all funny; this would seem to bring universal, mobile, surveillance a step closer.