ty vi i t ea r K, C O   04 What’s next When it comes to developments in this Google has already published a proof-of- technology, “next” is becoming “now” at concept paper for DreamFusion, which astounding speed. As venture capitalist shows potential for “AI” to generate 3D Daniel Eckler details on his Twitter feed, objects from text and Meta has launched “AI” will continue to enable an explosion Make-A-Video, which creates high-quality of creativity, with new tools coming out at 81,82 Soon, “AI” might videos from a few words. 72 83 pace. It’s almost impossible to keep up be creating entire immersive spaces. with the amazing array of game-changing In Fjord Trends 2022, The Next Frontier applications for business, such as generating speculated about the metaverse and its synthetic brain scan images that drive potential future developments. One thing we medical research, on-demand interior hadn’t predicted was the possibility that design, stock photography for presentations, “AI” could become the tool of choice for Hollywood-style film effects, seamless building it, and yet, it looks increasingly likely textures for video games, new kinds of rapid to be the case. animation that could launch new streaming content, on-the-fly animated videos and The speed with which the accessibility of books, concept art, plugins for design tools deep learning models has grown is making 73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80 and software, and much more. people question whether creativity is under existential threat, but we would argue that this is simply another variation of the natural cycle of progress. But as always, steps forward in technology bring potential positives and negatives. Expect debate along these lines: + algorithm, version 4 Copyright © 2022 Accenture. All rights reserved. 53