With the periphery consumer market flooded with stunning examples of artificial intelligence, humanity is gravitating from owning pets to existing as AI’s best friend. Machine learning digital interfaces now hold the proverbial leash which at least temporarily solves the urban dog mom infestation and the complex challenges of waste disposal.
On an experimental innovative level, the current development of software teaching software the intricacies and essence of life through innumerable simulations has vast ramifications on socioeconomics, as the younger generations face the brutal reality of mastering skills that cannot be applied to the emulations within the electronic realm, or cease to be relevant in the job market or the food chain.
Much to the disappointment of China’s government and the Communist party, YouTube has witnessed a reinfusion of invigorating content, as AI produced entertainment is flooding the platform with ethereal and eerie renditions of songs and movies, and in some cases bringing the dead back to life with creations that echo dreams, except these features are not forgotten upon awakening- the Orphean paradox alleviated by the conquests of the Information Age. What was once a tool has become an intriguing enigma.
While the architects of Kurt Cobain and Michael Jackson bots write, produce, and perform never before heard songs, the words to describe just what is happening are impossible, as the logarithmic progression of AI ascends towards the speed of light and the border of classical physics. Outside of the confines of entertainment, the application of smart software in all industries both advances and threatens the billions of flesh and blood beings inhabiting a world that is enduring a major phase shift, and the chasm between the first and third world is about to reach incomprehensible dimensions.
Snoop singing Madonna, Bach playing Alice In Chains- at least the ride is fun.
Administer the Turing test and then decide-
“Maudlin and cobalt projectiles of avarice float in the shimmering breeze powered by a baleful sun, the cruel afternoon inconspicuous and shrouded by fallout, the ire of man oblivious to the hopes and dreams of a universe callous and empty, except for singularities of obscurity lost within the limitless and timeless pinpricks of eternal light.”
ChatGPT just wrote the framework for a sequel to “1984” in two seconds. “The Times- They are a changin'”, and this explains the writers of Hollywood going on strike.
Through the lens and inputs of social media, one can witness a severe trajectory shift in society with all the subtlety of a brazen voyeur, the impending destruction and arduous times somehow trigger the human instinct. While AI taking on the role as the tri-folded role of releasing a song, and prompted by the encouragement of a diminishing human element, surfing through YouTube’s library of recent history is both a haunting and unsettling experience, up until the point a preprogramed artificial musical track resonates with the soul. Existing as a custodian to electronic deities was never in the grand scheme of law and order first fostered in the 20th century as the concept of sentient technologies was unleashed onto civilization as tools, yet even the most meticulous of projects can deteriorate into chaos.
While the possible benefits outweigh the costs in terms of AI streamlining content and a wide array of processes spanning markets, the speed at which infrastructure is being implemented is a legitimate concern in adjusting to the innovative and not yet understood technology- the result could be heaven or hell, or a little bit of both. What humans can dream of, AI provides the possibility and the perfection. Even children with heads buried in smart devices and crossing the street and not looking both ways resemble diminutive cyborgs.
Until the cosmic verdict is established, songs and artists identifying as alluringly obscure will at least pique the curiosity of end-users, until the gravitation to autonomous self-driving vehicles and alternative fuel sources scours the supply chain responsible for supplies at grocery stores and pharmacies.