How Will AI Holography Impact the World?

We live in an age of fast adapting and rapidly changing technology, and one of the latest developments in AI lately has brought the sci-fi imagery we would usually see on futuristic shows to life, constructing history’s first holograms from AI.

The Miracle on Ice recreated in Lake Placid, Michigan. Photo credit: Pat Bradley, WAMC

Neural networks are loosely modeled on a simplified notion of how the brain's neurons interact, where one neuron 'activating' will send a signal to other neighboring neurons to activate. The brain is far more complex, though, than the basic mathematics of what the neural network's 'activation' is. At its root it's basically a series of algebra equations where results from one 'node' or mini equation gets passed into the next. Ultimately this has proved a highly effective way of capturing complex relationships, particularly when you introduce billions of 'nodes'.

I interviewed Jonah, a friend who works at Spara, an AI company, who says, “It's only going to get more and more pervasive and integrated into more and more parts of life.” Alongside Google and others, there is a new fleet of highly valuable and highly specialized companies out there who are going to be pushing for this technology to be integrated into every facet of life. While it may seem odd that the company wanting a technology to become popular in society may seem backwards, because of how marketing works and how deals get made in the corporate world, very likely we will end up with technologies that deeply integrate AI whether the experience is optimal for consumers or not. 

AI has advanced rapidly, and will continue to do so, securely implanting itself in the future. Today, this technology has advanced to the point of stadiums utilizing AI holograms to showcase the events in vivid detail, reconstructed 3D displays of humans you can interact with, and so on. Recently, Herb Brooks Arena in Lake Placid recreated the 1980 USA Hockey team’s Olympic Miracle On Ice victory by projecting holograms made with AI onto the actual ice. Spectators felt the futuristic hologram captured some of the miraculous feeling of the original event. Recent breakthroughs in this holography include using elastic, vibrating, or laser-ionized air to create mid-air, 3D graphics that can be manipulated by hand, allowing users to grab, move, and rotate images without glasses. I personally can’t wait to see how it flourishes throughout all the new developments.