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Working Through Synthetic Worlds
Virtual environments (VE) are human-computer interfaces in which the computer creates a sensory-immersing environment that interactively responds to and is controlled by the behaviour of the user. Since these technologies will continue to become more reliable, more resolute and more affordable, it's important to consider the advantages that VEs may offer to support business processes. The term 'synthetic world' refers to a subset of VEs, having a large virtual landscape and a set of rules that govern the interactions among participants. Currently, the primary motivators for participation in these synthetic worlds appear to be fun and novelty. As the novelty wears off, synthetic worlds will need to demonstrate a favourable value proposition if they are to survive. In particular, non-game-oriented worlds will need to facilitate business processes to a degree that exceeds their substantial costs for development and maintenance. Working Through Synthetic Worlds explores a variety of different tasks that might benefit by being performed within a synthetic world. The editors use a distinctive format for the book, consisting of a set of chapters composed of three parts: a story or vignette that describes work conducted within a synthetic world based loosely on the question, 'what will work be like in the year 2025?', founded on the expert authors' expectations of plausible future technologies a scholarly review of the technologies described by the stories and the current theories related to those technologies a prescription for future research required to bridge the current state-of-the-art with the notional worlds described in the stories.The book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students, professors, scientists and engineers, managers in high-tech industries and software developers.
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How to compete in the age of artificial intelligence : implementing a collaborative human-machine strategy for your business
Get started with artificial intelligence in your business. This book will help you understand AI, its implications, and how to adopt a strategy that is rational, relevant, and practical. Beyond the buzzwords and the technology complexities, organizations are struggling to understand what AI means for their industry and how they can start their journey. How to Compete in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is not a book about complex formulas or solution architectures. It goes deeper into explaining the meaning and relevance of AI for your business. You will learn how to apply AI thinking across enterprise functions, including disruptive technologies such as IoT, Blockchain, and cloud, and transform your organization. What You'll Learn: Know how to spot AI opportunities and establish the right organizational imperatives to grow your business ; Understand AI in the context of changing business dynamics and the workforce/skills required to succeed ; Discover how to apply AI thinking across enterprise functions, from the boardroom to cybersecurity, IoT, IT operations, policies, and implement a sustainable and integrated human-machine collaboration strategy.
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Working Through Synthetic Worlds
Working Through Synthetic Worlds explores different tasks that might benefit by being performed within a synthetic world. The term 'synthetic world' refers to a subset of virtual environments, having a large virtual landscape and a set of rules that govern the interactions among participants. Currently, their primary motivators appear to be fun and novelty. If synthetic worlds are to prosper the non-game-oriented worlds will need to facilitate business processes to a degree that exceeds their substantial costs for development and maintenance.
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How does voice recognition work?
Introduces readers to the software that allows jet pilots to speak to their planes, smartphone users to make a hands-free call, and automated phone systems to give bank account information.
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Harmonizing Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
To become more broadly applicable, positions on AI ethics require perspectives from non-Western regions and cultures such as China and Japan. In this paper, we propose that the addition of the concept of harmony to the discussion on ethical AI would be highly beneficial due to its centrality in East Asian cultures and its applicability to the challenge of designing AI for social good. We first present a synopsis of different definitions of harmony in multiple contexts, such as music and society, which reveals that the concept is, at its core, about well-balanced relationships and appropriate actions which give rise to order, balance, and aesthetically pleasing phenomena. The mediator for these well-balanced relationships is Takt which is an ability to act thoughtfully and sensibly according to the specific situation and to put things into proportion and order. We propose that the central challenge of building harmonizing AI is to make intelligent systems tactful and also to design and use them tactfully. For an AI system to become tactful, it needs to be able to have an advanced sensitivity to the specific contexts which it is in and their social and ethical implications and have the capability of approximately inferring the emotional and cognitive states of people with whom it is interacting.
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Converging Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Technologies: Accelerated Growth Effects in Technological Evolution
One of the fundamental problems in the field of technological studies is to clarify the drivers and dynamics of technological evolution for sustaining industrial and economic change. This study confronts the problem by analyzing the converging technologies to explain effects on the evolutionary dynamics over time. This paper focuses on technological interaction between artificial intelligence and quantum technologies using a technometric model of technological evolution based on scientific and technological information (publications and patents). Findings show that quantum technology has a growth rate of 1.07, artificial intelligence technology has a rate of growth of 1.37, whereas the technological interaction of converging quantum and artificial intelligence technologies has an accelerated rate of growth of 1.58, higher than trends of these technologies taken individually. These findings suggest that technological interaction is one of the fundamental determinants in the rapid evolution of path-breaking technologies and disruptive innovations. The deductive implications of results about the effects of converging technologies are: (a) accelerated evolutionary growth; (b) a disproportionate (allometric) growth of patents driven by publications supporting a fast technological evolution. Our results support policy and managerial implications for the decision making of policymakers, technology analysts, and R&D managers that can direct R&D investments towards fruitful inter-relationships between radical technologies to foster scientific and technological change with positive societal and economic impcats.
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Interpreting visitor experiences with digital cultural heritage exhibitions in Yimeng China through thematic analysis
Yimeng cultural heritage landscapes are a crucible of regional identity, historical memory, and dynamic nodes in the context of heritage, tourism, and digital innovation. In the context of sustainable cultural tourism in the digital age, in general, this paper aims to explore the operation mechanism of visitor experience and meaning making of digital exhibitions in the cultural heritage landscape of Yimeng. Building on the Knowledge, Attitude, and Perception (KAP) framework, this work investigates how digital components—such as virtual reconstruction, multimedia storytelling, and interactive exhibits— influence the cognitive understanding (knowledge), evaluative responses (attitudes), and lived experiences (perceptions) of cultural stories by tourists. A qualitative method was employed, and 22 semi-structured interviews were conducted with visitors at the major display sites in Yimeng. Thematic analysis, conducted with the support of the MAXQDA software, generated five primary themes: Authenticity, Preservation, and Cultural Integrity, Emotional Resonance and Psychological Impact, Cultural Recognition and Valuation Enhancement, Community and Environmental Sustainability, and Future Directions and Enhancements. The themes present the everyday encounters and interpretive narratives that tourists create within these digital interactions, and in doing so, suggest how these technologies can facilitate cultural meaning-making, participatory learning, and emotional attachment to heritage. The findings are practically valuable for heritage practitioners, digital content developers, and policymakers who aim to develop inclusive and engaging digital heritage environments for cultural sustainability and meaningful visitor connection, as well as improved KAP outcomes.
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