Digital marriages and virtual children in the metaverse are being touted as the solution to solve the ‘overpopulation crisis,’ according to an artificial intelligence expert.
Author Catriona Campbell, who has a detailed resumé, asserts that in the years to come that people will begat virtual offspring in virtual realms in the metaverse, according to a new book she released earlier this year titled “AI by Design: A Plan for Living with Artificial Intelligence.”
As explained by The Daily Star, ‘These virtual kids would be just like the real thing but could be switched off at the touch of a button, and Campbell argues they’ll help the world deal with ‘overpopulation.”‘ She also says that a ‘Tamagotchi generation will be created and available to parents for a “small monthly fee.”
“Tamagotchi” is in reference to those once popular digital handheld pet games children used to play.
Virtual children may seem like a giant leap from where we are now, but within 50 years technology will have advanced to such an extent that babies which exist in the metaverse are indistinct from those in the real world.
As the metaverse evolves, I can see virtual children becoming an accepted and fully embraced part of society in much of the developed world.
We’re already well on our way to creating the Tamagotchi generation which, for all intents and purposes, will be ‘real’ to their parents.
On the basis that consumer demand is there, which I think it will be, AI children will become widely available for a relatively small monthly fee.
Make no mistake that this development, should it indeed take place, is a technological game-changer which, if managed correctly, could help us solve some of today’s most pressing issues, including overpopulation.
Based on studies into why couples choose to remain childless, I think it would be reasonable to expect as many as 20 percent of people choosing to have an AR baby over a real one. This will lead to the first, fully digital demographic which, although somewhat strange on first appearance, in fact represents what could be one of mankind’s most important technological breakthroughs since the advent of the Bronze Age given its potential impact on global populations and societal change.
She wrote in her book, the Daily Mail added in a report in late-May of this year
So how will these children operate in the metaverse? Study Finds details what some of it is forecast to look like:
[…] She believes these digital children will have photo-realistic faces and bodies, and will be able to recognize and respond to their parents using facial tracking and voice analysis built within an AR headset.
They will be capable of speech and simulated emotional responses – like a baby’s coo, a child’s giggle, or a teenager’s backchat – and possess a form of digital memory and other cognitive abilities.
Digital children will likely “exist” in the metaverse – a computer-generated virtual world that can be thought of as a three-dimensional internet. Here, parents will be able to interact with their children in digital environments of their choosing, such as a sitting room, park, or swimming pool.
And thanks to high-tech haptic gloves —wearable devices that reproduce sensations like grasping an object or running your hand across a surface — they will be able to cuddle, feed and play with their offspring at any time.
Campbell also believes that parents will also be able to set their “birth age” – from newborn to teenager – and choose whether they grow-up in real time or “activate” only on command. The child’s temperament and physical features, meanwhile, will likely draw on images of parents and personality quizzes to ensure they look and behave in the same way as they would if born biologically in the real world.
The “cyber tots” of tomorrow will give people the chance to “try” parenting before committing to the real thing, and will provide an opportunity for those who cannot have babies naturally, or who cannot afford them, to still raise a child. They will also be in likely demand from ethically minded consumers who want the joys of parenthood without contributing to the world’s growing population crisis.
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AUTHOR COMMENTARY
In January of this year I wrote that this wicked reality was coming down the line, and sure enough, now the media and tech experts are floating out this concept: “Marriage In The Metaverse. Couple Gets Married In A Virtual World, A Foreshadow Of The Sinister Reality To Come.”
What this woman is describing is a real-life Sims videogame, only this time people will be able to actively interact in it.
[1] Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; [2] Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; [3] Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.1 Timothy 4:1-3
I am not sure how the sales pitch will go, but assuming this is really what’s going to happen, marriage eventually will be prohibited and the metaverse option will be offered up instead.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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That is absolute insanity! A metaverse virtual reality baby or child passed babyhood that is not real and never existed it’s a holographic image. You might as well be mommy or daddy to a video game character, it’s essentially the same thing.