Technology Magazine December 2022 | Page 133

AI & ML
While established businesses including some from the financial services sector are already making plans for the Metaverse – and the billions of dollars predicted to be generated due to its introduction – a lot more work is required before it is more than an entertainment product .
“ To thrive , the Metaverse will require great natural language processing , understanding and generation of the highest accuracy and quality ,” says Prashnant Natarajan , Vice President Strategy and Products , H2O . ai . “ That ’ s because as it ’ s a purely digital medium with no physical presence , many Metaverse interactions will be driven by unstructured data – specifically , unstructured data around voice text , images , and so on .”
That means the fundamental building blocks of the Metaverse will require NLP , says Natarajan , which will help ensure those interactions succeed more often than they fail . Human-to-human interactions may

“ To thrive , the Metaverse will require great natural language processing , understanding and generation of the highest accuracy and quality ”

PRASHNANT NATARAJAN GENERAL MANAGER H2O . AI
be rewarding , he says , but technical issues can frustrate , so the higher the accuracy of the natural language processing in the Metaverse , the more likely it is to succeed as an industrial application .
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