boiMAG.com "Festival of the Arts"

3024 N. Ashland #577063

Chicago, IL 60657

773.975.0264

Editorial: boieditorial@aol.com

Advertising: boiads@aol.com

EdiToriAL

Publisher: BOI Magazine, Inc.

Editor: Nate Daniels

Feature Editor: John Stephens

Media: Sylvia Stewart

Graphic design: Titanium Graphics

Layout specialist: Jerry Ellison

social Media: Mike@Night

National Media rep: Rivendell Media disTriBUTioN: Chicago & suburbs: dsE (delivery service Enterprises) World Wide distribution: AnyFlip Media Network

- Festival

Arts

Black & Blue Festival 2022

BBCM Foundation Unveils their Line-up

The 31st edition of the internationally acclaimed Black & Blue LGBTQ+ Festival will be held during the weekend of Canadian Thanksgiving and American Columbus Day, from October 6th-10th.

“After the postponement of the 2020 and 2021 editions due to the health constraints imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the conditions are now in place for the return of Black & Blue this year with great enthusiasm, because we will present the main event of the Festival in a truly unique spectacular venue for us, with a very innovative concept”, indicated the President of the BBCM Foundation, Robert J. Vezina.

The main event will be presented for the very first time under the theme “Black & Blue 360°” at La TOHU, Montreal’s Circus Arts City, on Sunday October 9, from 10pm to 8am Monday morning. For its return after two years of absence, the 2022 Black & Blue will offer a multidisciplinary circular concept with a central 360° stage in an immersive 360° hall with electronic music by guest DJs and multiple performances, under the artistic direction of Louis Guillemette, an artist, designer and teacher at the National Circus School with many achievements to his credit and well known in the LGBTQ+ community. Also in the concept and production team, Fred Gouin will be the technical manager and Daniel Brazeau will be the lighting designer.

In its planning for the 2022 event, the organizing committee chose to strategically welcome Montreal's local DJs who had already been approached and engaged for the 30th anniversary edition, in 2021, but which was postponed. “We believe that the current

context, in particular due to several challenges coming out of the pandemic, is ideal to support such a decision, especially since all DJs, artists and cultural workers have suffered particularly since March 2020. But we will also be adding new talents this year such as top-quality performances in dance and circus arts”, according to one of the committee members.

The BBCM Foundation chose to promote and support local talent and to put Montreal talent in the spotlight

Here is the list of DJs already known through Black & Blue and/or popular on the Montreal nightlife scene, who will perform during the main event at La TOHU (in alphabetical order):

DJ Alain Jackinsky, DJ Ian Key, DJ Lady McCoy, DJ Luc Raymond, DJ Maus, DJs St-Denis (DJ duo Alain Vinet & Steve Aries), DJ Stéfane Lippé, et DJ Stephan Grondin.

The other activities of the 2022 Festival

In addition to the main event of La TOHU, the Black & Blue 2022 Festival offers several other activities, including a special alliance with the organizers of District Events and Pitbull Events, a first of its kind. “In this post-pandemic period when life is getting back to normal, we believe it is important to work in collaboration with other major organizers of similar events in the community, in solidarity rather than in competition. This is why we are happy to underline this strategic collaboration carried out with these two important players, Pascal Lefebvre (District) and Francis Gaudreault (Pitbull), which will allow everyone to share promotional advantages and promote touristic attractiveness, in particular”, Robert the President of the BBCM Foundation explains.

Lakeview East 17th Annual f ESTIVAL O f THE ARTS

September 10th-11th

Along Broadway, Belmont to Hawthorne Art, Music, Food & Family Activities

The Lakeview East Festival of the Arts showcases more than 150 juried artists featuring paintings, sculpture, photography, furniture, jewelry and more. These original pieces are for sale in a wide range of price ranges.

In addition to the art, the Festival has become a center of activity for the weekend with live demonstrations, entertainment stages, family activities and a garden oasis.

For more than 17 years, the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce has presented one of the most unique and popular art festivals in Chicagoland. Every aspect, from artists to musicians to vendors and everything in between, is specifically selected by the Lakeview East Chamber of Commerce in order to bring the best to the heart of Lakeview.

Art made by artificial intelligence is complex and often controversial. While some artists celebrate the immense possibilities, others grapple with creative and ethical questions, but there’s no doubt it’s here to stay.

In 2018, Edmond de Belamy created by Obvious became the first AI painting to be auctioned at Christie’s, fetching $432,000. Some were amazed, many confused.

So, what exactly is AI Art? In short, it is artwork (visual, audio, or otherwise) generated by a machine learning process, that is, a machine has “learned” some information, and used it to generate a new image. Humans may have collected the data, or written instructions for the machine to use, but the process of creation is left to the machine.

Imagine yourself standing in an art gallery, admiring an abstract print on the wall in front of you. It has bold colors and intentional-looking brush strokes. You wonder what it could mean. Then, you read the label on the wall, and learn the artwork was generated by an algorithm.

How do you feel? Maybe you’re frustrated that you were “fooled”. Maybe you worriedly remember that AI doomsday movie you watched. Or maybe you wonder how AI could augment your own creative process: could you make more art, explore new styles, and get access to tools you’d never dreamed of?

Here, we explore the history and context of this fast-growing medium. Then, we’ll learn how artists and computer scientists use algorithms to explore ideas. Finally, we’ll look at the tools, such as AI art generators, bots, and autonomous artists, that may revolutionize your creative process.

Artificial Intelligence is complex learning and thinking done by machines. Computer scientist John McCarthy coined the term in 1955. Like Alan Turing before, he knew computers could someday trick humans into thinking they were human, too.

What an AI does specifically depends on its algorithm (or list of rules for solving a problem). Typically, a machine learning system consists of a data bank, and a model that does something with the data (analyzes it, transforms it, etc). AI is everywhere, from Google Search to Netflix recommendations.

AI can hugely boost our creative work. Here we provide an advertising example: “You tell the AI, ‘I want to create a 50% discount off burgers for my customers, who are millennials’ and it’ll generate options, you click the options you like and train the algorithm.” AIs learn your style and preferences, and then work at huge scales very quickly. However, “the creativity is still done by people, they are the ones making the connections” or “synthesizing” ideas.

Some things to think about, so AI art happens where the machine and human come together. But how exactly do these systems work?

What types of AI can “create” art?

Mostly emerging in the mid-2010s, the most common types of AI art revolve around processing images, recognizing aspects like color, texture, and text. The models then edit existing images or generate new ones. There's lots to explore when it comes to AI Art!

n S: Questions and Answers

What is the role of pronouns in acknowledging someone’s gender identity?

Everyone has pronouns that are used when referring to them, and getting those pronouns right is not exclusively a transgender issue. “Pronouns are basically how we identify ourselves apart from our name. It’s how someone refers to you in conversation,” says Mary Emily O’Hara, a communications officer at GLAAD. “And when you’re speaking to people, it’s a really simple way to affirm their identity.”

“So, for example, using the correct pronouns for trans and nonbinary youth is a way to let them know that you see them, you affirm them, you accept them and to let them know that they’re loved during a time when they’re really being targeted by so many discriminatory anti-trans state laws and policies,” O’Hara says. “It’s really just about letting someone know that you accept their identity. And it’s as simple as that.”

Getting the words right is about respect and accuracy, says Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the national Center for

Transgender Equality.

Kaz fantone for nPR

What’s the right way to find out a person’s pronouns?

Start by giving your own, for example, “My pronouns are she/her.” “If I was introducing myself to someone, I would say, ‘I’m Rodrigo. I use him pronouns. What about you?’ “ says Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen, deputy executive director of the national Center for Transgender Equality.

O’Hara says, “It may feel awkward at first, but eventually it just becomes another one of those get-to-know-you questions.”

Should people be asking everyone their pronouns? Or does it depend on the setting?

Knowing each other’s pronouns helps you be sure you have accurate information about another person. How a person appears in terms of gender expression “doesn’t indicate anything about what their gender identity is,” GLAAD’s Schmider says. By sharing pronouns, “you’re going to get to know someone a little better.”

And while it can be awkward at first, it can quickly become routine.

Heng-Lehtinen notes that the practice of stating one’s pronouns at the bottom of an email or during introductions at a meeting can also relieve some headaches for people whose first names are less common or gender ambiguous.

“Sometimes Americans look at a name and are like, ‘I have no idea if I’m supposed to say he or she for this name’ -not because the person’s trans, but just because the name is of a culture that you don’t recognize and you genuinely do not know. So having the pronouns listed saves everyone the headache,” Heng-Lehtinen says.

“It can be really, really quick once you make a habit of it. And I think it saves a lot of embarrassment for everybody.”

Might some people be uncomfortable sharing their pronouns in a public setting?

Schmider says for cisgender people, sharing their pronouns is generally pretty easy, so long as they recognize that they have pronouns and know what they are. For others, it could be more difficult to share their pronouns in places where they don’t know people.

But there are still benefits in sharing pronouns, he says. “It’s an indication that they understand that gender expression does not equal gender identity, that you’re not judging people just based on the way they look and making assumptions about their gender beyond what you actually know about them.”

How is “they” used as a singular pronoun? “They” is already commonly used as a singular pronoun when we are talking about someone, and we don’t know who they are, O’Hara notes. Using they/them pronouns for someone you do know simply represents “just a little bit of a switch.”

“You’re just asking someone to not act as if they don’t know you, but to remove gendered language from their vocabulary when they’re talking about you,” O’Hara says.

“I identify as nonbinary myself and I appear feminine. People often assume that my pronouns are she/her. So they will use those. And I’ll just gently correct them and say, hey, you know what, my pronouns are they/them just FYI, for future reference or something like that,” they say.

O’Hara says their family and friends still struggle with getting the pronouns right, and sometimes O’Hara struggles to remember others’ pronouns, too.

“In my community, in the queer community, with a lot of trans and nonbinary people, we all frequently remind each other or remind ourselves. It’s a sort of constant mindfulness where you are always catching up a little bit,” they say.

“You might know someone for 10 years, and then they let you know their pronouns have changed. It’s going to take you a little while to adjust, and that’s fine. It’s OK to make those mistakes and correct yourself, and it’s OK to gently correct someone else.”

What if I make a mistake and misgender someone, or use the wrong words?

Simply apologize and move on.

“I think it’s perfectly natural to not know the right words to use at first. We’re only human. It takes any of us some time to get to know a new concept,” Heng-Lehtinen says. “The important thing is to just be interested in continuing to learn. So if you mess up some language, you just say, ‘Oh, I’m so sorry,’ correct yourself and move forward. No need to make it any more complicated than that. Doing that really simple gesture of apologizing quickly and moving on shows the other person that you care. And that makes a really big difference.”

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

by: Dr. Charla Waxman BS, MBA, EdD Director of Business Development Lake Behavioral Hospital

Why we avoid mental health help and support... and we do!

People are increasingly aware of the seriousness of mental illness and the long term impact of not getting help early following identification. Excellent media campaigns by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and Seize the Awkward (The Jed Foundation, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Ad Council) among others, have helped us all understand the importance of mental health treatment. Even with great information out there and clear messages about the varieties of available support, many still choose not to seek help. Although the stats differ depending on the organization, 40% seems to be a solid percentage of those forgoing any kind of mental health help. How is it possible that so many risk lifelong depression, suicide, poor life choices, and addiction?

Shame

Whether you call it shame or stigma, it is definitely out there! NAMI calls mental illness the “No Casserole” disease. For instance, if you were off from work for 3 weeks due to a hospitalization for a broken leg, you could expect calls, flowers, and cards from co-workers, friends, and family wishing you well and a speedy recovery. If you were hospitalized for depression or a suicide attempt, those same calls, flowers, and cards would probably be fewer in number.

Perhaps only a few very close friends and family would even consider making contact and some of those well- meaning folks might admonish your actions, or tell you to pull yourself together because people are depending on you. Imagine what that would feel like. It certainly would not create a hope-filled recovery. Admitting a relapse or asking for additional help in a situation involving shame and stigma would most likely mean that seeking help would not be an option.

fear

If you have never done something, leaning into the experience can be quite scary. Worrying that it won’t work or that failure may play a part is unnerving. Believing that all doctors will do is offer medications and that there will be horrific side effects can cause someone to reconsider the idea of reaching out. Looking at unreliable sites on the internet and listening to the bad experiences of others may drive one to decline support.

The unknown can only be challenged successfully with experience and the hope here is that you will try. There are lots of kinds of therapy and medications can be individualized to meet a specific illness need. Treatment does work. People do care. You are worth every little effort to feel better and get better.

Awareness

Addiction, in particular, is a disease of desire over reality. Regardless of relationships going awry, loss of a job, and legal or financial issues; the yearning to continue a behavior may far exceed the interest to stop.

Consequences have minimal impact and the behaviors and denial deepens over time. Other mental health conditions may go untreated as some may feel; “It’s not that bad” or “I can fix this by myself”. Some disorders may mean that connections to the here and now are limited and hallucinations or delusions may prevent awareness of the condition.

Durability

Mental illness can be exhausting. In the video, The Pain of Depression, in the Mental Health First Aid training course (National Council for Mental Wellbeing), Alice, a woman with depression, describes her body as feeling like “lead”. She tells that knowing the impact her death would have on her daughter was the only thing preventing her from suicide. She tells that in the “hell” she was in, “death could not be worse”. Consider, then, feeling like your body is made of “lead” and trying to

muster the energy to make a call for help and ask for support. It sounds impossible and without someone to help or to initiate the reaching out for mental health help, the “ask” may never happen.

feasibility

Even not-for-profit mental health support, in all reality, may not be free. Healthcare at any level can be or feel costly. Those without insurance benefits may find it difficult to secure treatment or the time limitations of treatment may mean that enough support for sustaining improvement is not achieved. Some people, like those with addictions, may have exceeded available treatment options or have left facilities before program completion, which then disallows a second or third chance to get help. With covid, telehealth increased, but people in the geriatric community, for instance, indicated no in-home computer access. Some cannot access healthcare because there was not a match for available specialty professionals, and in some communities there is minimal overall mental health treatment available.

Overall, there are lots of reasons why people don’t seek treatment. We do know for sure that anti-stigma responses, caring responses and learning about available services can be life changing.

If you need help, please call Lake Behavioral Hospital for a free mental health assessment to help determine the best level of care for you, at 855 990-1900. Our caring professionals will provide the professional care that you need.

fITnESS

Stay In Shape, Get Fit and Stay Healthy

Hitting the gym releases moodregulating neurotransmitters and chemicals including dopamine, serotonin, and endorphins, which can help chill out those feelings of anxiety and stress. It’s not a moreis-more situation, though. Exercise has been shown to help “restore” balance in the brain in terms of neurotransmitters, rather than creating more. In anxious brains, neurotransmitters are not being transmitted from one cell to the next very efficiently, so it doesn’t get around the brain as effectively as it should. So, exercise is one of the practices that can help regulate this.

Working out can also help distract you from going down a rabbit hole of worries and what-ifs, since it forces you to focus on the movement itself. What’s more is that from a more psychological perspective, some people think it contributes to this idea of self-efficacy, meaning that if you can exercise and get better at it over time, that gives you a sense that you’re accomplishing something. This is especially true when you combine exercise with a social component, like exercising with a friend or group, which can help boost mood and reduce anxiety.

Unsurprisingly, this means that group fitness classes are in higher demand than ever because people are craving companionship and togetherness after the previous year of isolation.

Sometimes exercise can make anxiety worse, however, exercise is a perfect example of how you can have too much of a good thing, literally and figuratively. Consuming fitness content (which is basically everywhere these days) can illustrate the downside of workout culture and create body image pressure. Much of that is fueled by social media apps like Instagram and TikTok, where people are flaunting ‘perfect’ and often filtered bodies, not to mention perfectly posed and angled bodies. The purpose of working out, which is to be healthy, can get lost and replaced with an end goal of body idealism.

Not only is this obsession counterintuitive to improving anxiety, it can be physically dangerous, too. Over-exercising to meet your goals, for example, exercising six to seven days per week and/or more than 90 minutes per session can lead to physical and mental burnout. Although we all know and love the athleisure craze, it also creates pressure to look cute while working out.

Long gone are the days of throwing on whatever workout clothes you grab first out of the drawer and breaking a sweat.

Plus, most social media posts tend to show a reflection of getting in shape quickly, and people post pictures of meals and workouts that are not necessarily the truth. Keep in mind that others’ online fitness journeys often are a carefully curated highlight reel. This goes for not only fitness posts, but posts that promote a sense of idealism around body positivity itself. While it’s great that some people tout the idea of selflove on Instagram and TikTok, not feeling that way 24/7 can become another reason to feel like you’re not stacking up.

Beyond how you look, being a committed gym-goer has the

potential to turn into an obsession, feeding into the anxiety spiral. Perfection becomes more important than the journey, and nothing becomes good enough, what once was a stress relief becomes a stressor and it’s really tough not to compare oneself with another who may perform a certain way. The most important thing is to stay true to your own goals and understand that being “in shape” is anything but a one-size-fits-all definition and that everyone is different.

One of the first steps here is to identify social media content that can put you into that anxiety and perfection spiral. Try to follow accounts that align more with the realistic journey you face toward achieving your body goals, and limit how much time you spend looking at images online.

Physically, some types of exercise (like hardcore cardio) can also spur feelings of anxiety in people who already struggle with it. For example, sprinting it out on a treadmill can feel a lot like experiencing the shortness of breath, increased heart rate, and sweating of a panic attack, and that scary feeling doesn’t always deliver the endorphin-boosting “high” of exercise we’re looking for.

This doesn’t have to be a forever challenge, though. People can overcome the fear of the physical response, you associate increased heart rate with anxiety, but you can relearn that this response can actually be a positive thing.

To help get there, try a grounding exercise when you’re feeling anxious during a workout. Notice five things you can see (like a plant in the corner or your water bottle), four that you can handle (like your hands or your phone), three you can smell (like gym cleaning solution or someone’s perfume), two you can hear (like birds chirping or cars passing outside the studio), and one you can taste (like your gum or coffee). This exercise, also known as the 5-4-3-2-1 coping technique, is touted in the behavioral health space for its ability to keep the mind focused on the present and stay in the moment (similar to meditation and breathing exercises). Ultimately you can retrain your brain and body to react to workouts more calmly.

It can also be helpful to time workouts around other parts of your week that put you on-edge. If you know the things that typically make you anxious, you can plan workouts that fit into those days ahead of time. When you start feeling anxious, carve out time in your day to replace any other habit that doesn’t serve you with working out.

Ultimately, the best time and type of workout is the one you can stick with. Little and often will help you make positive changes to your handle on anxiety through an exercise routine.

If you’re new to exercise altogether, start slow and steady to avoid getting overwhelmed, after all, trying new things can be scary, so be kind to yourself.

Changes in the brain take time. If you exercise once and not again, you’ll probably see an immediate benefit, and then it’ll go away because you have to maintain those activities to keep those neurotransmitters balanced. If you take medicines for anxiety or depression it may take weeks to really kick in and show a benefit, and the same can be said for the longer term benefits of exercise.

On that note, it’s very important to remember that anxiety is a serious condition, and sometimes, self-care practices like exercise and sleep are not enough, and that’s on the brain, not on you. So, think of exercise as a tool for combatting anxiety, not the end-all miracle cure, but, it’s a pretty powerful tool at that.

by Jack Santo

Robotics A nd Auto MAtion

The topic of Robotics is not new and has been steadily growing in the manufacturing and health-care industry, ever since more intelligent automation took off many decades ago. A lot of the robotics systems seen today are mainly hard-to-program stationary robots like robotic arms for welding, etc. The trend now goes into making these easier to program with machine teaching and getting these stationary robots on the move, which we see more and more with autonomous mobile robots (AMR). Predictions say that by 2030, 75% of the robots shipped worldwide will be mobile (6 out of 8 million). The Reply Network is at the forefront of this trend, being part of a few selected companies in the Boston Dynamics Early Adopter Program for the SPOT robot dog, which has been applied to interesting challenges. There have been deeper partnerships with Microsoft and the reference architecture for autonomous mobile robots.

sMAR t s p A ces

IoT and Digital Twins have been an ongoing topic for the manufacturing sector but now they are also entering retail, utilities sector, automotive and many other industries and their consumers. The topic becomes even more interesting with the bigger picture of Smart Spaces which market research companies also feature for their trends to watch closely. Smart

Spaces are physical or digital places and locations with interconnected sensors to give owners, occupants and managers better information and how the system is leveraged. Smart Cities is a flavor that is often discussed where whole cities become smarter and allow for more resource sensitive usage. Smart spaces offer a great way across industries whenever traffic, people, robots and other machines require analytics and efficient management. Smart Spaces also tie into the Real-World Metaverse technology allowing to add a smart, digital layer on top of the world.

e nte R p R ise MetAve R se

Spatial Computing is a topic that has been coming up and many companies in the playing field have been creating content around it for quite some time and will continue the journey, as it is still very much an emerging technology that will change how we interact with computers and the world. Mainly driven by AI computer vision and advanced sensors, devices can sense the physical world and provide more precise context for Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality (AR/VR/ MR) scenarios. Valorem Reply is a long time Microsoft Mixed Reality contender, and experienced teams have developed many innovative solutions gaining ROI for their clients.

In 2021 a 30-year-old terminology gained new traction and became top of mind for many business leaders, are talking about "The Metaverse." There’s currently a lot of hype and potentially a bit too much hype in particular on the decentralization web3 aspect of the Metaverse with NFTs. Aside from this overhype, we believe there’s real potential in web3 and the Metaverse, that will enable new beneficial experiences not just for consumers but also for corporations with their own branded Corporate Metaverse spaces. Another interesting flavor is the Real-World Metaverse, the AR Cloud, essentially a Digital Twin of our world, a digital content layer that is persisted and mapped to real objects and locations in the physical world. Virtual content can be anchored in the real-world, shared cross-platform, between platforms and over time.

It’s just the beginning of the Metaverse with the puzzle pieces of AI, Spatial Computing and decentralized protocols like blockchain becoming mature enough. Many people now are deeply committed to this and a recently launched Metaverse landing page, as we expect to see more gain this year, just like Forrester and the rest of the world are expecting huge growth opportunities. For example Bloomberg predicts “The global Metaverse revenue opportunity could approach $800 billion in 2024 vs. about $500 billion in 2020”. Therefore, it’s no surprise that all large tech companies and many startups are working in this space have been leveraging those since their early preview to develop custom solutions for their customers.

d i G itA l Hu MA ns

Metaverse worlds rely on users and their presence usually in the form of an avatar. The user’s own digital identity and virtual presence is an important personal element between Metaverse spaces. The avatar will become the new social media profile picture and user’s would want to maintain it between different Metaverse platforms which is a challenge without open interoperability. Decentralized identity systems powered by blockchain have the potential to maintain the user’s Digital Human identity including the virtual presence avatar across Metaverse spaces. NFT might be used for linking the actual avatar asset and for the transaction of virtual goods and assets. The Digital Human doesn’t have to stop there and can be even more useful by leveraging heterogeneous data sources and providing unified realtime insights.

t otA l e xpe R iences

Total Experiences go beyond MX and further include the customer experience (CX), employee experience (EX) and user experience (UX). TX enables outstanding shared experiences combining all of those in a homogenous, frictionless experience from A to Z.

This requires a strong, unified user experience approach with usercentered design thinking, plus great technology support like cloud backends to fuel dynamic frontends with the data they need for the custom experience. Market researchers ran a survey and found that the top two reasons from business leaders for starting digital initiatives are : enhancing the customer experiences and increasing productivity for employees. With TX, businesses can achieve a holistic user experience approach both for customers and employees.

d e M oc RAtiz Ation of A i

The trend with low and no-code development is continuing, even in the AI space where 2021 brought us further democratization of AI and investments into citizen data science where domain experts without prior Machine Learning or Deep Learning knowledge can create sophisticated, custom AI models easily. Also, designers and developers are benefiting from the immense progress with neural network and large transformer models used for Generative AI. Even experienced programmers are profiting by getting AI-assisted co-development into their hands with tools like GitHub Copilot which is very impressive.

The trend is only going to continue with the rising adoption of AI in almost every digital transformation aspect of all industries. A recent survey among IT organizations saw an increase of AI adoption rising to 56% in 2021 from 50% in 2020. e d G e A i A nd i o t

Edge AI and IoT are maturing further and are key pieces for the growth of industry 4.0, not just in manufacturing.

The data needs to be processed fast and smaller IoT devices become more and more capable of executing AI workloads directly on-site with Intelligent Edge deployments for shorter latency. This is particularly the case with computer vision models requiring large and fast data streams like images or videos. These AI models are trained in the cloud, then deployed to an edge device and executed. The best of both worlds is used with this approach where the scalability and computing power of the cloud is leveraged during training and the short latency of the edge deployment provide large benefits for real-time model inference.

Gene RAtive A i

A category of AI models is called generative AI models, which basically learn from training data to generate similar, but brand-new original assets. Impressive examples are human-liketext, poems, images, music, graphical art and more. The most impressive outcomes are enabled by so called transformer models with billions of parameters which can only be handled in the cloud, for example Microsoft’s Turing or GPT-3 (which is also the basis for GitHub Copilot). With such great innovations comes unethical things too, like Deep Fake videos or malicious voice synthesis which further emphasize the point that we need Digital Ethics and Responsible AI frameworks to limit the ability of bad actors.

Generative AI will also play an important role in the Metaverse where large catalogs of assets are needed. Thanks to 3D AI models, these assets could potentially be synthesized from text input, imager or refined based on rough 3D scans from user’s mobile phones. There's a lot more, but that's enough for now.