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Title: AI and Blockchain Empowered Metaverse for Web 3.0: Vision, Architecture, and Future Directions
Abstract: As one of the most prominent parts of the Internet, World Wide Web (WWW) has achieved great success and penetrated every area of our lives. However, the current Web still suffers from growing concerns about user privacy and data ownership. To address this issue, we propose a promising architecture for the next-generation WWW, Web 3.0, which is underpinned by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Blockchain empowered Metaverse. Fueled by native AI, the Metaversebased Web 3.0 can provide users with a personalized experience and enable smart decision-making. Backed by Blockchain, the Metaverse-based Web 3.0 is decentralized, which can help users regain full control of data, and protect the ownership of generated data. Furthermore, this new architecture can provide a ubiquitous immersive experience to users during real-time interaction with digital avatars in the Metaverse. To verify the effectiveness of AI in Web 3.0, we propose an AI-based approach, which can significantly enhance the quality of immersive experience perceived by users in Web 3.0. In addition, we pinpoint the challenges faced by the proposed Metaverse-based Web 3.0 and highlight pertinent research directions in the future.