‘Great developments’ with ‘immersive’ benefits to artificial intelligence

Futurist Mal Fletcher says there are lots of “immersive” benefits to artificial intelligence as “great developments” continue to occur in the space. Artificial intelligence is being used to bring musicians ‘back to life, with an AI Elvis Presley, who died 66 years ago, appearing in a new stage show starting in November – performing as a hologram. “I think AI will keep surprising us in the arts and in everyday life, and there’s a lot of benefits to it – in education, in the same way, we might go to concerts, we might see immersive learning experience – learning a language could become a fully-immersive experience rather than a piecemeal thing in a classroom,” Mr Fletcher told Sky News Australia host James Macpherson. “Imagine studying historical events by being able to visit them in virtual space, if you combine virtual reality with AI or make that possible in real time. “And healthcare: there are great developments at the moment with nanobots – microscopic machines built from the atomic level up from cellular material that can at least, in theory, be loaded with chemicals injected into the bloodstream and take out harmful cells like cancer while leaving the healthy cells intact. “So, there’s a lot to be said about the immersiveness of AI, but it’s not all for the arts.”