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The artificial intelligence (AI) story shows no signs of slowing.

Instead, AI which could be worth $1.8 trillion by 2030, according to Statista is already changing just about everything. In fact, its already changing drug discovery, education, finances, cyber threats, legal issues, you name it.

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Even better, companies are racing toward Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), where AI can perform all human cognitive skills better than the smartest human, as noted by Forbes. In fact, according to DeepMind co-founder and author Mustafa Suleyman, as also noted by Forbes, AI will achieve this human-level performance within the next three years.

Investopedia adds, AGI is generally conceptualized as being AI that has the ability to match the cognitive capacity of humans, and is categorized under the label of strong AI. (Artificial super intelligence [ASI] also sits under the strong AI category; however, it refers to the concept of AI thatsurpassesthe function of the human brain.

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VERSES AI Inc., a cognitive computing company specializing in the next generation of artificial intelligence, is pleased to announce the launch of its intelligent software platform, Genius, for exclusive private beta partners and a demo of select Genius capabilities during a November 3rd webinar.

Gabriel Ren, founder and CEO of VERSES, unveiled the company's key corporate announcement last month, emphasizing its goals with the rollout plans of Genius and the ambition to offer better foundations for AGI (Artificial General Intelligence). Genius is a cloud-hosted platform for developing smartware - software agents that can learn, reason, adapt and interact in digital and physical domains. Genius is designed to power a new breed of smart applications and devices that we believe everyone, from small developers to large Fortune 500 companies, wants but s to build with current state of the art tools. said Ren.

We have been overwhelmed by the early demand from more than 1,500 developers, engineers, and large enterprises that have already requested early access to Genius. Although many will have to wait for public beta, we believe the time has come to give a sneak peek of Genius capabilities so that everyone can see the potential of this technology. Todays announcement marks an important step in our go-to-market strategy, to form new partnerships and to continue innovation toward making general intelligent software available to all, said Ren.

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The 2023 Gartner AI Hype Cycle predicts that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) will take more than 10 years to reach a plateau of productivity. However, according to Gartner, First Principles AI, which describes the methodology VERSES employs, has the potential to accelerate the development of AGI and all other AI adoption within a few years.

We believe that our First Principles approach, based on standards, utilizing natural computing and backed by neuroscience-based methods like Active Inference, positions us as a front-runner in the race for AGI, often called the "Holy Grail of AI, said Ren.The Genius beta began in October and is rolling out to a select group of ten private beta partners; enterprise software developers will be granted early access to Genius to test various diverse use cases over the next few months. The company will announce each private beta partnership as it launches over the coming weeks and months.

With this announcement, VERSES continues to demonstrate its leadership, innovation and commitment to enable a smarter, safer, and more accessible path to AGI.

Learn more about Genius:

https://www.verses.ai/genius

Read the Corporate Update: https://www.verses.ai/press-2/verses-ai-q3-corporate-update

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Picture this: The year is 2040. Youve just disembarked from a hypersonic flight from New York to London, a mere two-hour journey, and then take an air urban mobility drone to beat Londons rush hour traffic to be home in 20 minutes. While in the air, you streamed a holographic conference in real time, thanks to a seamless fusion of cellular and satellite networks made possible by 6G. This isnt a visionarys dream. Its a glimpse into the imminent future. My team of foresight specialists at MarketsandMarkets has put together the top Mega Trends that will shape our future. The below Trends wheel summarises these trends across Horizon 1, 2, and 3.

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The Hyper-Connected World: Each generation of technology has revolutionized how we connect and interact. 3G bought data, 4G video, and 5G provide B2B use cases like machine-to-machine communication, providing us with Connected stadiums, factories, and cars. But 6G? The leap from 5G to 6G promises a colossal leap, bringing isolated entities like homes, cars, and cities into a unified connected living ecosystem. Combine this with Space Log Jam (we will launch 20k satellites in this decade, and this will provide high-speed broadband, possibly 5G speeds in the future through satellites and precise location-based services), and we will be connected everywhere, anywhere, anytime, making it a hyper-connected world that will trigger new disruptive business models. The future, in essence, will echo a constant connection. In such a world, being disconnected might be the only true luxury.

Dawn of Technology Singularity: This trend charts the AI evolution from narrow AI to the dawn of singularity, where intelligent and powerful technologies could radically transform our reality with unpredictable results. With the advent of Generative AI, we have now entered the General AI era. There are currently no real-world examples of Artificial SuperIntelligence (ASI) where AI reaches human levels of consciousness, intelligence, and capabilities. A key sub-trend of growth of AI and the hyper-connected world will be us entering what we term an Autonomous world a $10tr opportunity. By 2035, we will have the advent of new computing science like Neuromorphic Computing, DNA computing, and Quantum computing entering our worlds, and they will challenge Moores law further and accelerate the shift from General AI to Super AI, meaning machines will become more intelligent than humans thereby achieving Technology Singularity.

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Industry 5.0 - The Symbiotic Era: The fourth industrial revolution was about applying emerging technologies that are connected, interactive, and intuitive. The end objective is to derive the maximum cost and time efficiency. The European Union describes Industry 5.0 as providing a vision of an industry that aims beyond efficiency and productivity as the sole goals and reinforces the role and the contribution of industry to society. In the foresighting world, these mega-developments like Industrial revolution profoundly impact our Society. The 1st industrial revolution shifted us from a farming to a manufacturing economy and brought mega trends like urbanization. Similarly, with Industry 5.0, there will be a profund impact to our society at large, where human-robot coworking will reframe the fundamentals of jobs, skills, and global sourcing.

The Energy Transition: Future of Energy will be decarbonized, decentralized, digital and democratized, and possibly one day energy will be free. Decarbonization refers to the shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Decentralization in the Energy sector refers to the growth of smaller on-site renewable power generation solutions. Digitalization refers to the shift from analog to digital solutions in the energy infrastructure like smart meters and smart grids to real-time management and processing of billions of data points to automate decision-making to allow integration of diverse power generation sources. Democratization refers to localization of Energy and harnessing the local nature to develop the best energy mix for that country/region and making energy accessible to all. We at MarketsandMarkets believe that one day, in the 21st century, energy could be free, and it will usher in new disruptive business models and opportunities that are unique and very different from what we see in the world today. That could mean future fuels like Green hydrogen will be abundant if the solar or wind power to generate it is free.

Innovation to zero: This is my favorite trend and is close to my heart. Innovating to Zero is not a mega-trend but a mega visiona vision of a picture-perfect world, a desire for perfection in our Society, businesses, and every product and service we consume. It is a zero-concept world with zero crimes, zero diseases, zero hunger, zero deaths, carbon-neutral buildings, cities, and net zero nations. The Vision Zero World is all-encompassing today, embracing manufacturing, retail, cities, individuals, corporates, governments, work, home, leisure, products, performance, and processes. It is about a philosophy that pivots around safe, smart, and sustainable practices. Beyond achieving carbon neutrality and net zero, it is about consciously building a better worldfree of errors, defects, and negatives.

Future of Mobility: The future of travel isnt just faster but smarter. Imagine a world free from transport woes, where multi-modal, integrated systems offer real-time dynamic guidance, culminating in almost instantaneous journeys. The future of mobility will be multi-modal, integrated, and door-to-door, combining multiple energy-efficient transport modes with mobility-as-a-service platform offerings. Mobility will be an integral part of a zero-vision world where the three evils of transportcongestion, pollution, and accidentsare all eliminated. We will have the fourth and the fifth dimensions of travel introduced with sub-surface and super-surface travel with hypersonic speeds a reality (imagine London to New York in two hours). The scenario will lead us to a state of mobility that takes us closer to transcending time and providing instantaneous mobility.

Future Society and Urbanization: While the global population is aging, some nations in Asia and Africa have young, fast-growing populations. The prospective customers will be more diverse in age, sex, culture, and wealth and require personalized and customized services. Increasing urbanization rates in small and intermediate-sized cities, particularly in Africa and Asia, will have important implications for new markets, products, and services. Suburbanization will grow in the West, but the East will see a growth of Mega regions and urbanization of cities hundreds of miles apart, giving rise to gargantuan corridors like the 1350 km Delhi Mumbai Industrial corridor.

Economic powerhouses of the future Baby-bust economies: With growing populations and a youth demographic dividend, many emerging economies will outpace advanced economies in growth. In fact, by 2040, todays developing economies will account for more than 65% of global output. We believe that countries with a 100M+ population have the potential to be trillion-dollar economies by 2040. Thereby, future growth will be driven by what we term baby-bust economies. In this changing economic tapestry, populas nations like China, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria could emerge as the ultimate and top 15 economic powerhouses by 2050. Changing economic dynamics also pose challenges for businesses. For example, a lingering thought remains as we draw this vision to a close. With global population growth potentially plateauing and the ongoing climate crisis, the grand question is: Could we see the end of growth as we know it? The answer may lie with the emerging middle class of developing countries. Their aspirations, dreams, and economic thrust could carve out a new Middle Earth. A world where their ambitions drive the global GDP growth, shaping a future thats as unpredictable as its exhilarating.

In this grand dance of disruption and innovation, one truth stands tallwere on the cusp of a revolution that promises to be extraordinary. So, brace yourselves: the best is yet to come!

If you are interested to learn more about Foresighting, reach out to the Markets and Markets Foresighting team.

Sarwant has over 29 years of work experience in leading major advisory and transformation engagements focusing on making organizations future ready.Sarwant is currently working with Markets and Markets as President and Chief Commercial office. His focus is on forward-thinking strategic consulting & advisory services within the mobility sector with a focus on Electrification, Mobility and New Business Models.In MnM, he also leads a think-tank that does futuring and trend analysis work.He is author of a book titled, New Mega Trends which has been sold in over 30 countries and twice translated into Chinese.

Prior to joining MnM he worked with the Hinduja Group as CEO of OHM mobility and Chief Planning officer of Switch Mobility, in a dual role, and was responsible for accelerating the vision of OHM to be a leading mobility services provider in the commercial mobility space.

Sarwant sits on boards and advisory boards of multiple organizations. He is currently board member of Vasuki, a $30mn fund set up by Rothschild that invests in Automotive start ups globally and NED in Ascenco Tyres. Follow him on Twitter:https://twitter.com/

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The impact of the technology will be seismic, but the way it plays out is not pre-determined.

The governments papers foresee the expansion of highly capable general-purpose AI models that can perform a wide variety of tasks. Such super-intelligent machines will provide effective automation in many domains.

This could mean robots take over the workforce, displacing human staff and sending shockwaves through British society.

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By 2030, the most extreme impacts are confined to a subset of sectors, but this still triggers a public backlash, starting with those whose work is disrupted, and spilling over into a fierce public debate about the future of education and work, the papers postulate in an imagined future scenario.

It sounds like something out of science fiction highly skilled computers rendering humans obsolete. But dont draft your pre-emptive resignation letter just yet.

In a speech discussing the findings of the report, prime minister Rishi Sunak said it was too simple to say artificial intelligence would take peoples jobs. He asked the public to view the tech as a co-pilot instead.

As with all technologies, [AI systems] change our labour market, I think over time of course they make our economy more prosperous, more productive, he said.

This is, in theory, true. AI can complete mundane administrative tasks extremely quickly, freeing workers up to do other things.

One company I have spoken to adopted an AI system to schedule visits for social care, Hayton says. The employees could do something that previously took them three days in three hours.

But what such productivity-enhancing measures mean for employees isnt pre-determined.

[That company] could have made 90% of its employees redundant, Hayton added. Instead, it moved them into more interesting roles in business and customer development. But thats a choice that management made.

When a company sees its employees as a resource, AI will benefit workers. But if it sees them merely as an outgoing cost, it could lead to mass redundancy.

In slightly better news, government reports suggest that we may return to pre-1980 trends in which worker displacement from automation was roughly offset by creation of new jobs.

But where will these new jobs go? If we arent careful, low-to-mid skilled workers away from technological hubs could be cut out of the AI transition, Hayton says.

Theres huge demand for the few people with the skills to take on these complex, high-tech jobs, he explains. But in regions where theres below-average investment in workforce education and technology infrastructure, people wont get these jobs without massive investment.

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The technology has the capacity to polarise the workforce, and to make it more unequal, Hayton added.

To offset that possibility, the government and companies that are adopting generative AI need to take employee rights seriously.

In this country, the unions have been eroded post-Thatcher. But in the AI transition, employee voices must be considered, he says. That way we are more likely to see positive outcomes.

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In our increasingly digital world, educators recognize the significance of integrating AI tools in the classroom. AI integration can address diverse learning needs, promote data-driven decision-making, and spur class discussion. Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience.

ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators.

EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course? What were your goals?

McClelland: One of the things that piqued my interest in the ISTE U course was that I didn't know much about using AI. I knew of ChatGPT from reading articles online, but I didn't know how it worked. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! And at first, our school blocked its use. I think all educators grew concerned.

I was at a crossroads; I didn't want students to use it because I didn't want academic dishonesty, but I also knew this technology would not go away. I thought it was really important to take the course because if I don't learn how to use it effectively and I don't learn what it is, then I won't be able to convey that to students. I'm doing them a disservice if I dont learn about AI.

What elements of the course structure and content were particularly effective in facilitating your learning about AI?

The instructor was really supportive. The course seemed more focused on my outcomes on my learning and applying the material rather than meeting a deadline. I loved that the course was asynchronous and self-paced. As much as I love being a part of live PDs and collaborating with other educators across the country, it's really hard to do that weekly.

In the ISTE U course, we could regularly chat with classmates through posts and replies. I could still connect with educators but without having to be on a , especially considering different time zones and start dates for school. My school started in early July, so I finished the course during the first few weeks of my school year. I appreciated having the flexibility to say, I'm super swamped this first week back at school and dont have time in the evenings; I'm just going to sit down and do this on Sunday when I'm doing my lesson planning.

I really loved that every module opened with a fun way that AI can be used it's not just ChatGPT writing an essay or MagicSchool AI making your lesson plan. One of my favorite activities was giving prompts to different generative art AI bots, resulting in completely different designs. Even the AI tools that are trained using the same information could still give unique results! This later became a great discussion point with my students.

Another great example from the course was a whole lesson on deepfakes, which involve creating audio or video of situations that never actually happened. Being a government teacher and teaching about political elections, I'm really excited to apply what Ive learned in my classroom. This will help me educate students on spotting deepfakes and discussing the possible implications.

The crux of what I got from the course, which has helped me a lot in approaching AI and how to use it in the classroom, is that there are so many things to learn. As educators, we often think that its bad for students to use ChatGPT and that it's going to lead to them not learning anything. But we can't knock students for not knowing how to use it properly if we don't know how to use it properly ourselves; we need to teach them in what context to use AI and how to do it in an academically honest way.

Can you share specific examples of how you integrated AI concepts or tools into your teaching practices as a result of taking this course?

I work in a school with an emerging multilingual population, and AI has been so beneficial in helping me scaffold resources to make them more accessible for my students. Especially in a social studies classroom where Im working with a lot of primary sources, sometimes it's hard to figure out how to break down that language so that English learners are still accessing the same content but not losing the academic vocabulary.

In government class the other day, we used AI to gather background information on past political parties. Once students understood the basic points, we then discussed how those parties may have merged into modern political parties.

I have also held class discussions about how AI works and how it is trained with information from the internet. This leads to conversations around what problems could arise. I ask students, Could AI be trained on bad information? What can we do about that? We discuss how we cant blindly trust AI; rather, we can use it as a baseline to build knowledge. I think of it as levels of taxonomy: AI can give us a basic understanding, but then students need to analyze and create from there.

What advice can you offer other educators looking to learn more about integrating AI in their classrooms?

Dont be afraid of AI. It seems like there exists this fear that AI will replace teachers. AI can teach kids content, but it doesnt teach them how to apply it. Thats our job as teachers. Our role is changing a bit, but for the better. Now, we dont necessarily need to spend as much time teaching the baseline information. Instead, we can do more projects, engage in more class discussions, and help students apply that information.

I encourage teachers to find their online communities. I follow several edtech accounts that offer ideas on using AI in the classroom, and I adjust the ideas to my different classes. This doesnt mean redoing everything in your lessons. Try revising a couple of lessons for each unit by integrating AI tools. You dont have to totally change what you are doing to expose students to AI.

AI is going to become a more integral part of the workforce. If we as educators are trying to prepare students for the world of college and careers, we must train them to use AI tools responsibly.

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