Wednesday, 8 January 2020

I have seen the AI dystopia and it looks like Neon

I have seen the AI dystopia and it looks like Neon

It's an odd feeling when your own science fiction catches up with you. 

A decade away I wrote a short story about a kind of Artificial Intelligence called Verts. The Verts only existed on 2-D screens, but the screens were ubiquitous. They were fake, but CGI had crossed the uncanny valley: they contrived to look more real than their human customers. They were always trying to sell us something — the name derived not from virtual but from advertising — but we didn't mind. They'd conquered the planet by knowing us better than we knew ourselves. It seemed like humanity to create its first self-aware AI in the form of ads.  Read more...

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