Visualization Tutorials

A tutorial on the right way to create slopegraph visualizations for assessing technological pattern shifts, resembling digital actuality and generative AI.

Apprehension lingered within the air on the shut of 2021 when Mark Zuckerberg gave us a glimpse into the ‘Metaverse’ — a digital universe, accessible via digital actuality headsets, that goals to create a convincing sense of bodily presence in lifelike digital environments. As a consequence, in 2022, we witnessed a resurgence of curiosity in digital actuality, sparking each pleasure and existential dread.

Whereas the metaverse stirred curiosity in 2022, it was not the one transformative power at play; the explosion of generative AI had swiftly altered the collective focus.

In Metaverse and Generative AI: Envisioning the Way forward for Human-Pc Interplay, Ian Hughes and Sudeep Kesh clarify,

“2022 and 2023 have been significantly eventful years in sure branches of synthetic intelligence. Whereas a lot of AI and machine studying […] has been hidden away from broad public consideration to this point, the overall on-line inhabitants has instantly been capable of have interaction with massive language fashions (LLMs) through interfaces resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Bard. […] This improvement was accompanied by the rise of generative AI for photos, with the likes of DALL-E and Midjourney main the pack. […] Some search engines like google and yahoo have began to implement this know-how. […] Just like the metaverse, generative AI has the potential to have an effect on each interplay we’ve got with digital content material and with each other.”

These previous few years have been a testomony to the exceptional velocity at which the tech panorama evolves and tendencies…