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Trauma therapy with AI support: opportunities and challenges.

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Traumatic experiences can lead to serious psychological consequences, such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The treatment of trauma disorders requires individual and professional support by psychotherapists. But how can artificial intelligence (AI) support or complement trauma therapy? What are the benefits and risks involved?

AI in the diagnosis and prevention of trauma sequelae.

AI could also help identify traumatized individuals at an early stage and offer preventive measures. For example, AI-supported apps or chatbots could provide victims with information, tips or exercises to deal with traumatic symptoms. Such digital interventions could provide a low-threshold and anonymous means of accessing psychological help.

AI in the therapy of trauma sequelae.

One possible field of application for artificial intelligence is to support the diagnosis of mental illnesses. For example, AI-based models based on various parameters could provide indications as to the direction in which more in-depth diagnostics might be useful and thus facilitate diagnosis. This could be done, for example, by analyzing speech patterns, facial expressions, gestures or physiological data.

AI could also be used in the therapy of trauma sequelae, e.g. as a complement or alternative to conventional psychotherapy. Different methods could be used, such as:

- Virtual Reality (VR): VR makes it possible to recreate traumatic situations in a controlled and safe environment to provide exposure therapy. The VR environment could be adapted by AI to the individual needs and reactions of the patient.

- Avatar therapy: Avatar therapy is a form of conversational psychotherapy in which patients interact with a virtual counterpart controlled by AI. This could, for example, represent a traumatic person with whom the patient can have a dialogue in order to process the experience.

- AI-based software: AI-based software could support therapy for trauma sequelae, for example, by providing personalized feedback, recommendations, or reminders. It could also facilitate documentation and evaluation of therapy.

Ethical issues and challenges

However, the use of AI in trauma therapy also raises ethical issues and challenges that need to be considered. Some of these are:

- Data protection and security: Processing sensitive data about traumatic experiences requires a high level of protection against misuse or unauthorized access. Both technical and legal measures must be taken to protect the privacy and autonomy of patients.

- Quality and effectiveness: The quality and effectiveness of AI-based interventions must be scientifically tested and evaluated before they can be applied in practice. This must also take into account possible side effects or harm that could result from faulty or inappropriate AI.

- Trust and relationship: The relationship between patient and therapist is an essential factor for the success of trauma therapy. Trust, empathy and respect play an important role. How can such a relationship be established and maintained with an AI? How can an AI complement or replace human interaction without replacing or endangering it?

Conclusion

AI offers many opportunities to enhance or expand trauma therapy. However, the ethical aspects and challenges associated with the use of AI in this sensitive area must also be considered. Interdisciplinary collaboration and critical discourse are therefore needed to explore and responsibly shape the opportunities and risks of AI in trauma therapy.

Metaworking reduces greenhouse gases

Metaworking reduces greenhouse gases

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The metaverse can make an important contribution to reducing global warming.

This is confirmed by a Cornell University study.

👉 In the USA alone, the targeted use of metaverse technologies could reduce greenhouse gas emissions by more than 10 gigatons by 2050

As much as we are happy that personal meetings, events and business trips are possible again after the pandemic, we should also have learned that many things are dispensable and that the metaverse has good alternatives in store. A good mix of both worlds already helps here.

Collaboration in the metaverse as a hybrid approach is just one example here. Such meetings are more spontaneous than physical meetings and still create a "virtual" proximity.

New Work In the metaverse

New Work In the metaverse

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In stores from June 8

The release date is set!

Based on concrete use cases, the relevance of the metaverse as a technological driver for New Work is presented. It is intended as an inspiration to take the first practical steps in the metaverse today. The technology is there. What is needed now are creative ideas and the courage to start something new.


The book will be available for order at all major booksellers starting Thursday.
It will be available as a softcover and eBook:

ISBN Softcover: 978-3-347-81797-5

ISBN e-book: 978-3-347-81806-4

Further information and multimedia background information is available here:

Https://newworkmeta.drostenet.de

PWC study sees cloud gaming on the rise

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Cloud gaming is picking up speed, at least PWC claims in a recent study.


Since the future of the Metaverse is in the cloud, and the technical framework is almost identical to that of gaming, I think this statement is very exciting.
The issue of latency is mission-critical for both.
Unfortunately, PWC comes to the wrong conclusion:
Here, the bandwidth in the network is presented as a limiting factor.

❗️Latenz has nothing to do with bandwidth tun❗️

The decisive factor is the network architecture. What is needed is a high-performance edge infrastructure in the networks.

An example: The rendering of elaborate Spaces must not take place in a cloud data center 6000 kilometers away, but in physical proximity to the user.

Such infrastructure will be a key locational advantage in the Metaverse in the future.

Secondary markets also benefit from AI and Metaverse

Secondary markets also benefit from AI and Metaverse

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Following Elon Musk's announcement that his AI startup will rely on processors from Nvidia, the shares of the graphics processor manufacturer from Santa Clara, USA, are soaring.

The Nvidia share reaches the highest closing price of the past 12 months on 4/18-23. Similar to Nvidia are the gains at quite a few smaller and larger suppliers in the industry. This shows that we are dealing with a multi-billion market in AI and Metaverse, even beyond the generally visible companies such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, etc.

Cloud and communications technology in particular play an extremely important role. If you don't have the right partners on board early on and can scale in time, you won't be able to serve the newly emerging markets.
AI hype and the metaverse are very closely related. AI will give the metaverse the momentum it needs to scale and adapt dynamically to new business models.

This is not about the AI-based animation of an avatar in the Metaverse, which then conducts training sessions as a 3D chatbot. No, it is about nothing less than the organic further development of the Metaverse itself. The traditional business of developing virtual spaces will be completely transformed. Instead, we are talking about dynamic platforms that, based on AI, can create requirement-specific virtual worlds at the push of a button in just a few seconds, which can be changed and adapted again just as quickly at any time.

Less bandwidth and better graphics through texture baking

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When we talk about cloud-based metaverse applications like T-Systems' Magenta Metaverse, interactivity and immersion are key!

Bandwidth and GPU-powered cloud data centers are technical basics.
But almost more important are the architecture and design of the spaces. Here we can learn a lot from the gaming industry.

👉 One of the most common techniques is the so-called "texture baking".

In simple terms, this means that you transfer the high-resolution textures of a static 3D model to a game-ready model with fewer polygons.
The result is a high-quality but interactive object with less computational and bandwidth overhead.

As a first demonstrator, we tried this out with amazing results at our #virtualinnovationcenter! (Above without and below with texture baking) 🚀

It is very important to optimize industry cases to ensure maximum customer experience without specific client hardware.

Empathy in the metaverse through haptic feedback

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Empathy in the metaverse is a very important topic when we focus on social interaction and mental health.

There are typically 5 senses that allow us to receive empathy:

  1. Acoustic stimuli
  2. Visual stimuli
  3. Smell stimuli
  4. Taste stimuli
  5. Haptic stimuli

1 and 2 can be transferred to the metaverse without any problems.

👉 Now, California-based startup emerge.io is launching a tabletop device that envelops virtual objects and interactions with ultrasonic waves in the air.

Technologies like these will provide groundbreaking support for "haptic stimuli" and open up a broad field of new empathy-driven applications in the metaverse.

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