Exploring Human-Machine Coexistence in Symmetrical Reality

TL;DR

A novel descriptive framework for a world where humans and machines coexist symbiotically is constructed, termed "symmetrical reality", offering innovative research insight for renovating human-machine interaction paradigms.

Abstract

In the context of the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), the interaction between humans and AI entities has become increasingly salient, challenging the conventional human-centric paradigms of human-machine interaction. To address this challenge, it is imperative to reassess the relationship between AI entities and humans. Through considering both the virtual and physical worlds, we can construct a novel descriptive framework for a world where humans and machines coexist symbiotically. This paper will introduce a fresh research direction engendered for studying harmonious human-machine coexistence across physical and virtual worlds, which has been termed "symmetrical reality". We will elucidate its key characteristics, offering innovative research insight for renovating human-machine interaction paradigms.

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• Figure 1: A conceptual illustration for a typical symmetrical reality system. The human user and the AI agent can interact with each other across the physical and virtual worlds. A task can happen in both worlds so that the physical and virtual worlds evolve simultaneously.
• Figure 2: Levels of symmetrical reality. The elliptic structure from small to large shows the inclusion relationship of different frameworks. The upgrading process from low-level to high-level autonomy promotes the expansion and evolution of the frameworks.