WHEN VIRTUAL WORLDS BECOME INTELLIGENT: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, VIRTUAL REALITY, AND NEW RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES

Abstract

The recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) have contributed to a significant visibility of generative AI. Despite the big spotlights being on AI nowadays, the ambition to develop computational systems capable of creating the illusion of intelligent behaviour is not new. One can date AI to the 1950s, when various researchers raised the topic and made remarkable contributions to the field’s establishment and evolution.