Humans and AI: Three Futures

Avi Bar-Zeev
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8 min readJan 18

a photorealistic round glass fishbowl containing a collection of small colorful 2D images of people, places and things each using a random style, contrasting colors and themes
DALLE2 prompt: a photorealistic round glass fishbowl containing a collection of small colorful 2D images of people, places and things each using a random style, contrasting colors and themes

Welcome, to all the newly minted AI experts! Everyone by now has heard of ChatGPT and other generative AIs. Personally, I got into XR about thirty years ago with a dream to tell stories, perhaps even new interactive 3D stories (think: Holodeck) with the vital help of AI. Along the way, I worked on the procedural 3D object system for Second Life and smart cartography for the original Google Earth. But I don’t actually call myself an AI…

Avi Bar-Zeev
Predict

XR Pioneer (30+ years), started/helped projects at Microsoft (HoloLens), Apple, Amazon, Keyhole (Google Earth), Linden Lab (Second Life), Disney (VR), XR Guild