3 pillar trends for the development of technology in the future
- Tram Ho
Written by: Nguyen Mai Duc
Today, the change and development of the world of technology is no longer a straight line but it is exponential.
For 60 years, mankind has gone from having no aircraft to launching the first spacecraft to the moon. Within 20 years, mankind has also gone from inventing rudimentary websites to creating artificial-minded machines, defeating the world-famous player with the chance to win people. is 0%.
Many technology experts, including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, predict that the development of technology in the next few decades will be based on three important pillars, the Artificial Intelligence, Mixed reality (Mixed Reality) and quantum Computing.
This article will provide an overview of these three prevailing trends, their potentials and limitations.
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the study and development of computer systems capable of performing tasks that require human brain such as translation, voice recognition, decision making or emotional expression. contact according to circumstances. The potential of AI is huge, because in a few minutes, it can analyze thousands of blocks of data at the same time and thereby provide useful suggestions and predictions for the business – something people may need months.
Machine Learning (temporarily translated as “Machine learning”) is an important leverage for AI applications. Machine Learning is basically algorithms that allow computers to “learn” – meaning that it can absorb new knowledge from the external environment, improve itself from errors and contacts. with people as well as other machines. Machine Learning, in other words, will act as a child’s brain, thereby allowing the machines to “mature” over time.
A practical example for AI technology is retail. AI and Machine Learning can analyze purchase data of thousands of customers for decades. From there it will determine exactly which products will sell at each time of the year, predict which stores will need more goods than other stores, how the weather will affect consumption, what How changes in prices and packaging affect revenue. Recently, McDonald’s fast food chain spent $ 300 million to buy an AI startup company called Dynamic Yield from Israel. This acquisition is expected by McDonald’s to help them anticipate customer needs, thereby making the input process more accurate and efficient.
However, AI has a big drawback. No matter how powerful it is, it still needs input data – which can be distorted by prejudices and personal views. A child who is raised by a racist parent will grow up with discrimination. In recent years, the Police Department in the United States has applied AI in predicting areas of potential crime and more efficient allocation of resources. Social activists argue that US police have long stigmatized and “paid special attention” to people of color. Machine Learning will automatically analyze this data and suggest the allocation of more police for the colored areas, making the crime rate here likely to increase because of inhibition in the community. Once the crime rate increases, Machine Learning continues to suggest the same thing, creating a vicious circle.
Realistic mix
First, it should be clarified that Virtual Reality (Virtual Reality, or VR), Augmented Reality (Augmented Reality, or AR) and Mixed Reality (Mixed Reality, or MR) are three different concepts. VR is a technology development that allows users to immerse themselves in a 3D environment. To mingle with this simulated world, you need to wear a special VR glasses, usually connected to a computer or game controller. With AR, “interaction” is an important keyword.
AR technology allows you to interact with digital content displayed right on the “virtual world” in front of you, such as directions or weather information. Finally, MR is still a developing and unreleased technology on the market, but promises to create great commercial potential. Combining the strengths of VR and AR, MR will help you fully immerse, interact and feel the virtual world. In other words, you will hear the sounds, feel the temperature and light as well as touch, grasp the virtual world’s objects as if you were in the same place.
If these thoughts are hard to understand, imagine exploring Mars. VR glasses will create a 3D environment that allows you to immerse yourself in the Martian surface. You turn around 360 degrees and still see Mars – but if you’re not in the lab, you can’t move because you’re actually in the real world. The AR glasses will elevate the experience to a new level, displaying graphical information about Mars in front of you and allowing you to touch them as a touch screen. You choose night mode, and the entire Mars environment will be changed at night.
Finally, MR will give you the most authentic feeling. It will copy the same sound, surface, soil and rocks on Mars – which allows you to go around visiting the planet, touch the rocks and feel the realness of the them. If these are unbelievable, then what I have just described about MR is a model that was successfully built by Microsoft Building 92 labs a few years ago.
While MR technology takes time to complete, there are many VR and AR products on the market, such as Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Samsung Gear VR, Sony PlayStation VR, Google Daydream and Microsoft HoloLens. Once the MR technology is on the market, it has the potential to completely change the face of many industries, such as tourism (you can visit and even “try out” the bed of a hotel before booking). ), real estate (you can visit and experience a remote house interior) or entertainment (you can mix and become a true warrior in a hero movie).
Quantum computer
Quantum computing is the construction of a computer system based on the laws of quantum physics. First of all, it should be clear that quantum computers are still an invention of the future, because scientists are still studying to produce the first such computer. While the processing of computer information is currently limited by binary code (0 and 1), the quantum computer’s processor will be powered by qubits, capable of performing many calculations. simultaneous. Qubits are not bound by binary code, but can handle any number combination, so it creates “superposition”. It will take 1 billion years for a traditional computer to crack the RSA-2048 encryption algorithm, but quantum computers can do this in about 100 seconds.
Once realized, the potential of quantum computers is immense. It can help solve human issues such as climate change, poverty, disease and water scarcity. It also has the ability to change the face of many industries, from retail, media, energy to health. For example, scientists have spent decades but have not yet developed a vaccine against HIV, because the structure of the HIV virus is complex and constantly changing.
While traditional computers are still helpless to calculate that constant change, quantum computers can light the hope of a new or successful treatment. Another example is climate change mitigation efforts. Data on nature on a global scale, such as sea level, air humidity, precipitation or melting ice speed, is a huge piece of information, constantly changing and updating. Quantum computers will help analyze them and provide precise equations for people to act on, for example, how much water should be pumped into a lake so that the surrounding city will reduce by 2 or 3 degrees Celsius.
According to IBM, one of the companies pursuing the race to create the first quantum computer, the biggest obstacle in the development of quantum computers is noise – from lightning to phone waves. trouble for this particular type of computer. That is why current quantum computer research projects are done deep underground, in soundproof environments and at a very low temperature. The dream of a quantum computer for commercial purposes is far away, but we all have the right to be optimistic about the positive effects it will bring.
According to Young Intellectuals / General