TinyTroupe’s Hyperreal Economies: A Look at Simulated Agency

TinyGroupe in a virtual environment.

Somewhere in the early 2000s, I heard an economics professor explain how virtual worlds could be used as a laboratory for his discipline. Imagine two game environments with financial markets, identical in every respect except that in one environment insider trading is allowed, while in the other it is not…. Continue reading

Exploring the Frontier of Embodied AI: Virtual and Real Worlds Collide

There has been a significant amount of recent news regarding embodied AI. In the realm of artificial intelligence, an embodied agent refers to an intelligent entity that interacts with its environment through a physical body within said environment. Agents represented graphically with a body, such as a digital avatar or… Continue reading

Embodied AI: The Next Wave of Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse

Women seems to pass a screen with a humanoid being

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang delivered an inspiring video message at the recent ITF World conference in Antwerp, Belgium. He explained that the first wave of AI focused on learning perception, while the second wave revolves around understanding and generating information. According to Huang, this new wave is revolutionary due to its… Continue reading