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Be Amazed

Emerging Technologies That Will Change Our World

Be Amazed

Be Amazed

Science, Society & Culture, History, Leisure, Documentary

5710 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The 21st century has seen the emergence of incredible technologies we could once only dream about. But the stuff we have now is just the beginning, and humanity’s smartest minds are continuing to develop technology that will change the world forever. Let’s explore some mind-blowing emerging technologies and the unbelievable – and occasionally terrifying – impacts they could have on our future.



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0:00.0

The 21st century has seen the emergence of incredible technologies we could once only dream about,

0:06.2

but the stuff we have now is just the beginning,

0:09.1

and humanity's smartest minds are continuing to develop technology that will change the world forever.

0:15.7

Let's explore some mind-blowing emerging technologies and the unbelievable

0:19.9

and occasionally terrifying impacts they could have on our future.

0:24.6

You're listening to be amazed.

0:34.6

Artificial intelligence or AI is the implementation of systems and machines that allow them to analyze their environment and automatically take actions to maximize their success.

0:47.3

These days, AI is everywhere. It tailors the adverts you see online to your personal tastes, it helps autonomous vehicles

0:56.0

park, and steer.

0:58.2

It's even responsible for many of the Snapchat and Instagram filters you may have used.

1:03.5

Through AI, scientists are teaching machines to react somewhat like humans, but some

1:08.0

of the new emerging uses of AI are truly amazing, and a little eerie, too.

1:14.5

In 2019, researchers from Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology developed a new algorithm

1:21.3

that uses AI to automatically transform a picture of a face into a moving video. Using marker points on source images, it first constructs a virtual 3D model,

1:32.3

then fills the gaps, allowing it to show the face from angles it hasn't even seen.

1:37.3

The more input images, the better the quality, although it can still produce the effects even from a single image.

1:45.4

The famous faces of Marilyn Monroe, Albert Einstein, and even the Mona Lisa have been

1:50.1

tested producing scarily accurate living portraits as a result.

1:55.2

But there are more serious implications, too.

1:58.6

Deep Learning AI is already being used to create fake videos of celebrities online.

2:03.6

Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and even Mr. Bean are among the famous faces to have already been

2:09.6

featured in these deep fake videos.

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