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We all know, the online world today is not as it once was. It is filled with avatars, deep fakes, people playing with their own realities and all kinds of crazy stuff. From travelling back in time to exploring the depths of the Metaverse, Playing With Reality takes a look at technology as it happens and challenges its boundaries. Join our host Menno Van Doorn, Research Director at Sogeti, as he takes a deep dive into technology with experts from the industry. If you are fascinated by the pos ...
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2023 has truly been the year of AI. No tech story has dominated the headlines to such an extent, and for good reason. Its effects are already world changing. Over the course of this season, we’ve followed the thrilling rise of AI in so many different fields - from health to music, and fraud prevention to coding. In this final episode of Playing wit…
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Music has always been a creative act - something that expresses the deepest of human emotions in song. But now, digital technologies are stepping in to challenge humans. Today, with just a simple prompt in natural language, AI can create a fully formed song, or even copy the exact style of established artists. So what does this mean for the industr…
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With the increasing prevalence of digital monetary transactions, fraud has become an ever-present threat to all of us online. And advancements in AI have also made it possible for fraudsters to use sophisticated techniques to perpetrate their crimes. From deepfakes to investment scams, AI has made it easier than ever for fraudsters to manipulate pe…
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The release of OpenAI’s GPT-4 has sent shockwaves around the world of Artificial Intelligence. Its power to work across multiple modalities and increased precision in its answers has astounded many - but what about those in the coding community? Because AI has been used in the coding space for some time - from Codex, to Microsoft’s Power Platform, …
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The Remarkable World of AI-Enabled Healthcare
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Generative models of Artificial Intelligence are being used across industries to huge and varied effects - and as we learnt in our first episode of season 2, sometimes with potentially sinister consequences. But there’s one realm where this kind of AI is broadly positive: healthcare. In medicine and drug discovery, AI is being used to scan huge dat…
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The power of generative models of Artificial intelligence like ChatGPT and Dall-E dominate the headlines, for good, and of course for bad, these days. They bring promise, yes, but also a kind of fear. So could they be a Frankenstein’s monster of a technology? Or something that could save the planet? And where did it all come from, anyway? In this, …
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Coming soon... Playing with Reality Season 2
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Menno Van Doorn is back with a new series of Playing with Reality, to take you on another excursion into the world of technology - this time into the thrilling field of Artificial Intelligence. After a first season exploring the Metaverse, this time round we’ll be asking the biggest questions about AI, like what effect it will have on the creative …
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2022 has been an exciting and turbulent year for tech. From the explosion of the metaverse into the public consciousness, to the FTX crash and the emergence of AI in the creative space, the world’s top companies have led the way in innovating products that are truly changing the digital world. But what were the most surprising trends of the year? A…
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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that they had bought the gaming company Activision Blizzard for a reported $67.1 billion. This was a watershed moment for the industry, and one which signalled a cultural shift as gaming became a truly mainstream entertainment medium. But how did we get here? How did gaming move from a niche industry dominated…
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Digital Twins are one of the most interesting technologies today attempting to recreate real life systems and processes in digital versions. These are mirror worlds which not only play with reality, they are trying to recreate it with true fidelity. But where did these technologies come from? Who were the early pioneers? And what does it mean to ma…
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In 2006, some of the globe’s top minds in technology met in California to talk about a new thing called “the metaverse”. People talked about virtual worlds and how to make them a reality, and during the conference, a roadmap was created. Now in 2022, the Metaverse is all the rage. Following Meta’s vast investments into their conception of the metav…
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As ideas for the metaverse and other online communities and spaces continue to grow and become more developed, it only makes sense that major companies and corporations now want to get in on the act. Of course, everyone has heard of Meta and the billions they have invested, but who else is doing exciting things in this space? What is the benefit of…
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Augmented Reality is one of the most exciting frontiers in modern tech - from Google Glass to Snapchat filters, it already plays a significant role in our lives, more than many might think. New developments in hardware and AR’s opportunities for online community engagement have driven the field forward, putting us at the precipice of widespread use…
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What is life like living as a virtual avatar? Are the billions of dollars that Meta is spending on creating the metaverse a guarantee for success? Will the obsession with our carefully crafted digital doppelgangers turn society into a virtual playground? And will it be heaven, or a nightmare? In this inaugural episode of Playing with Reality, our h…
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We all know, the online world today is not as it once was. It is filled with avatars, deep fakes, people playing with their own realities and all kinds of crazy stuff. From travelling back in time to exploring the depths of the Metaverse, Playing With Reality takes a look at technology as it happens and challenges its boundaries. Join our host Menn…
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