The development of artificial intelligent agents will involve evolution and selection in virtual reality. The selective breeding of AI agents may become the primary purpose of the metaverse and the main source of revenue for the entire VR industry. This outlook can help the metaverse expand the base of stakeholders and continue growth. Here, I propose a pilot program to explore the transformation of virtual reality environments into artificial intelligence farms.
Presently, the metaverse is mostly regarded as a social platform that was supposed to generate revenue through targeted advertising. Thus far, it did not attract enough users to be commercially viable. As a result, billions of dollars’ worth of investment in VR technologies are now at risk of loss.
The investment can be salvaged if it is shown that the VR industry can make money in other ways. I contend that virtual reality can produce tangible profit-making products. It is the bio-inspired artificial intelligence agents — the artificial brains that operate on biological principles. They have to be developed through evolution and selective breeding. This breeding must be performed in a virtual reality environment, because inept artificial brains can be a danger in the real world.
Simply speaking, the metaverse should be transformed into “The Matrix”, like in Wachowski movies. There, humans will raise artificial intelligence agents in the manner of Agents Smiths. Recently, we have made a prediction that the AI farms will make good profits and will eventually grow into a global digital infrastructure used by much of the world’s population. We have also forecasted that these farms will become an integral part of the real economy and will greatly contribute to the industrial development.
Artificial intelligence systems have already been involved in the production of goods and services. And their role will only grow in the coming decades. In the future, the AI agents can produce a new type of productive forces, which include products that independently make other new products. The infrastructure for their production will be worth a lot.
Presently, an artificial intelligence farm is not yet an implemented product. Its creation will require additional time and financing. However, now may be the right time to announce its development. Most importantly, it would stop the decline in investment in VR technology, generate new profit expectations, and attract new investors.
However, expanding the pool of stakeholders should not be used as a convenient way to pull out money, transferring the risk to new investors.
As a first step, I suggest a pilot project aimed at the creation of a first artificial intelligence farm. The pilot program will evaluate the efforts and resources needed to create the minimum viable product and determine the time frame for its development.
I nominate myself for the role of director of research. I am the right person for this job because I am a specialist in artificial brains. I run a research company that develops artificial animate materials, which emulate neural networks. It is a relatively new field that has very few experts.
I understand the scientific and technological backgrounds that underline this problem. I can determine the range of tasks and challenges that need to be solved, from the fundamental research to the creation of MVP.
I can coordinate the work of different specialists from several areas of science and technology, which are scattered across academic and research centers around the world. Last but not least, I have a crystal clear vision of the final result, as well as all the intermediate steps; I can guide the project through its many stages of development.
Dr. Dmitry A. Kukuruznyak is the director of research and development at the Animate Condensed Matter Company, where he develops non-biological materials that reproduce the function of biological neural networks. Before joining the company, he was a research scientist at the Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems (Germany), Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research (Germany), and National Institute for Materials Science (Japan). He received MSc degree in physics from the University of Miami, and PhD degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Washington. His research contributes to the foundations of physics of life, autonomous behavior and physical artificial intelligence. Dr. Kukuruznyak is a scientific entrepreneur who takes scientific research to the marketplace. He integrates science and business perspectives and transforms advanced research into commercial innovation.