{"id":980,"date":"2023-02-23T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/02\/23\/as-microsoft-embraces-ai-it-says-sayonara-to-the-metaverse\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T11:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:08:26","slug":"as-microsoft-embraces-ai-it-says-sayonara-to-the-metaverse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/2023\/02\/23\/as-microsoft-embraces-ai-it-says-sayonara-to-the-metaverse\/","title":{"rendered":"As Microsoft embraces AI, it says sayonara to the metaverse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the metaverse?<\/p>\n<p>Before the recent explosion of hype around artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse was anointed the Next Big Thing, ready to transform the world, technology, and work in ways never before imagined. Soon we would all live and work together in a virtual world far more interesting, vital, and productive than the drab reality in which we\u2019re stuck.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn\u2019t just Mark Zuckerberg who led the metaverse charge by changing Facebook\u2019s name to Meta. Microsoft hyped it as well, notably when CEO Satya Nadella said, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/prod\/2021\/11\/Microsoft-Ignite-2021-Satya-Nadella.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I can\u2019t overstate how much of a breakthrough this is<\/a>,\u201d in his keynote speech at Microsoft Ignite two years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"jumpTag\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/article\/3688433\/as-microsoft-embraces-ai-it-says-sayonara-to-the-metaverse.html#jump\">To read this article in full, please click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the metaverse? Before the recent explosion of hype around artificial intelligence (AI), the metaverse was anointed the Next Big Thing, ready to transform the world, technology, and work in ways never before imagined. Soon we would all live and work together in a virtual world far more interesting, vital, and productive than the drab [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hello.inherentknowledge.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}