Setting up the scenario prompts for clients alway cheers me up no end. In front of your eyes science fiction becomes science fact. With some of them having a serious impact on your business. What got my attention are two developments in the area of lenses. 3 atoms thick and night vision enabled. That is cool by itself, but if you think this through in its extremes the impacts are profound, both from a mixed reality perspective, but also from an augmentation perspective. What can you miniaturise and make smarter in your products?
Other prompts for 10 June 2024
The other topics are AI clones, human-like ‘bio-skin, understanding animals (using AI), consumer trends, electronic noses, minting a synthetic organism as an NFT, stretch displays and the first AI brothel.
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The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/3/24168733/zoom-ceo-ai-clones-digital-twins-videoconferencing-decoder-interview
Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
World’s thinnest lens is just three atoms thick
https://newatlas.com/physics/worlds-thinnest-lens-three-atoms-thick/
Scientists have pushed lenses almost to the limit, creating a lens that’s just 0.6 nanometers (nm) thick, or only three measly atoms.
Human-Like ‘Bio-Skin’ Gives Robots a Much More Nuanced Sense of Touch
Using microfabrication techniques, the team engineered a flexible device—roughly the size of the tip of a human thumb—that can sense different types of forces at a resolution similar to its human counterpart.
Using AI to decode dog vocalizations
https://news.umich.edu/using-ai-to-decode-dog-vocalizations/
Leveraging a human speech model to identify different types of barks
Night-vision lenses so thin and light that we can all see in the dark
https://newatlas.com/technology/night-vision-thin-light-lens/
The tech can be packaged up as a night-vision film that weighs less than a gram and can be placed across existing lensed frames.
Ericsson ConsumerLab: 10 Hot Consumer Trends 2030s – the AI-Powered Future
Artificial shoppers, generative fashion, sentient screensplays, human digital twins, govern by AI, AI running wild, etc.
Google Sees ‘Electronic Nose’ on a Smartwatch as Future Quantum Application
Future quantum computing technology could lead to an “electronic nose” on a smartwatch that could detect dangerous viruses in the air or allergens in food. It could even expand human consciousness in space and time.
I minted a synthetic organism as an NFT. This could change biotech as we know it.
The fusion of synthetic genomics and NFTs represents a potentially transformative leap for the bioeconomy, offering enhanced economic opportunities, accelerated R&D, streamlined intellectual property management, new revenue models for biocreators, and strengthened biosecurity
Stretchy Displays Sport Better Resolution
https://spectrum.ieee.org/stretchable-display
Stretchy displays could be used in new kinds of health-monitoring devices and wearable computers, or make it possible to turn curved or spherical objects into touchscreens and lights.
AI brothel opens in Berlin
https://euroweeklynews.com/2024/06/09/ai-brothel-opens-in-berlin/
This June, people will be able to book an hour with an AI sex doll in a one-of-a-kind brothel in Berlin. Customers will have both verbal and physical access to the AI dolls.
