The Metaverse has fallen, and "artificial intelligence" has become a new outlet again, for profound reasons
For almost two years,"Metaverse"It is a very hot concept, which has not only sparked fierce competition among giants, but also launched this project in many cities.
For example, American social giant Facebook will change its name to Metaplatforms at the end of 2021 to show its determination to enter the metaverse industry.
Microsoft founder Bill Gates has predicted that the metaverse will fundamentally change the way people work in the future, and remote work will attract more people to the metaverse.
In addition, 15 cities in China have successively promulgated 28 special policies to support the metaverse in 2022, planning to reach 850 billion yuan in the metaverse industry within three years.
If all goes well, it is certain that the metaverse concept will still be on the rise in 2023, but the unexpected happens, and with the advent of ChatGPT in early 2023, the wind of the entire internet has shifted from the metaverse to artificial intelligence.
Since then, the caliber of the American tech bigwigs has changed uniformly, with searches for the metaverse falling by 80% in the last year, according to GoogleTrends.
Bill Gates, who has high hopes for the metaverse, recently reversed course on the issue of the metaverse, saying that the significance of the emergence of ChatGPT is no less than the birth of the Internet and personal computers, artificial intelligence is a revolutionary and major technology, and it has also poured cold water on web3 and the metaverse, believing that the metaverse is not so heavy. Want.
Bill Gates's remarks have also been put into practice, and Microsoft's virtual reality social space AltspaceVR previously announced that it would shut down the platform on March 10, a concept that was once focused on by Microsoft after the emergence of the metaverse.
Judging from these changes, the metaverse seems to have declined, in addition to a significant decrease in attention, capital investment has also been greatly reduced, and artificial intelligence has become the new sweetheart.
But if you look for the reasons behind the rise and fall of the metaverse and the outbreak of artificial intelligence, it may be related to the current crisis facing the United States, because the entire 2022 year of the United States** is equivalent to living in a nightmare, evaporating 14 trillion US dollars.
Recall that on the first trading day of 2022, Apple's market capitalization had exceeded $3 trillion at that time, setting an all-time record, but on the first trading day a year later, Apple's market capitalization fell below $2 trillion, a total decrease of $100 million.
Apple's loss in 2022 is only the tip of the iceberg of the US ** field, and the ten companies that evaporated the most in the US ** that year were Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Tesla, Meta, NVIDIA, TSMC, PayPal, and Nifty, with a total evaporation of more than 5 trillion US dollars.
According to third-party statistics, the total evaporated market value of more than 6,000 companies listed on the ** exchange in the United States in 2022 will reach $14 trillion, and the serious decline has led to a miserable decline in the US capital market.
In this context, the United States urgently needs a new concept to boost the capital market, which is why ChatGPT, developed by OpenAI in the United States, came into being.
At the beginning of February this year, after ChatGPT was completely detonated, many American technology companies, including Microsoft and Google, announced one after another. As you can imagine, whether it is Microsoft or Google, the stock price started a round in early February**.
Therefore, it is not difficult to understand that the real purpose of the launch of ChatGPT in the United States is to save U.S. stocks, so can the United States succeed?Judging from the current situation, ChatGPT is likely to gradually fall to the altar like a cosmic fire after a major injury.
In fact, as early as 2016, Google used artificial intelligence technology to develop an Alpha Dog chess player, and defeated the world Go champions Lee Sedol and Ke Jie in a duel, setting off a round of artificial intelligence frenzy at that time.
Six years have passed, although artificial intelligence has some applications in daily life, but it has not amazed everyone, and now the concept of artificial intelligence is popular again, reflecting the incompetence of the United States in scientific and technological innovation.
The United States has long been unable to lead the global science and technology as it did 20 years ago, and now the United States has begun to be overtaken by China in many fields"Fried cold rice"。
The author believes that artificial intelligence may continue to soar in the past two years, until the United States is unable to use this technology to protect the market, VR and other technologies will be used again to fry rice.
On the contrary, China's current scientific and technological development is more important, emphasizing infrastructure construction and basic science, and only the main development of the economic foundation will make the future more promising.
I hope that the Americans will not rest on their laurels, not only think about suppressing other countries with technological superiority, but also let mankind unite to overcome technological problems, only in this way can we have more exploration at the cosmic level.