Game of Fake and Real

Alright folks, so three things.

Artificial Intelligence Revolution

Improved Vocal Manipulation Techniques

Improved Video Manipulation Techniques

 Few days ago the news came in as scientists shut down their Artificial Intelligence program after the Bots started to speak with one another by creating the code language which was incomprehensible by humans. Well yeah, sounds like the movie I-Robot right, where Will Smith is afraid of Robots because he thinks they are dangerous if given too much power?

Yeah, the movie goes on and on while ending with a robot taking control over human lives and telling them how they should live because they do not have the ability to take smart decisions for their life and they tend to commit mistakes.

Well how close are we to this fiction now? What if the AI Bots starts making complex languages and do their own incomprehensible work which no human can understand.

Facebook has shut down two artificial intelligences that appeared to be chatting to each other in a strange language only they understood.

Another two things which I came across where an Adobe technology can create your voice’s imitation while taking in only 20 minutes of your speech and make transcript of anything anyone wish to make a person say. Wow. Well that sounds horrifying ha.

Oh hold on. You thought its only limited to that.

Well we got Video manipulation too. Where you can take any prerecorded video and make the person in the video behave his facial expression according to another real time person imitating the words he wish to say.

So basically, you can take this video thing and combine it with the vocal thing and you’ve got yourself a reality you wish to see.

Wanna see president Trump saying “I am the worse president of the history!”? yep you have got that.

Wanna see president saying “I am sorry, We shall work on the Climate change together and make the world a better place”, got it.

Oh and also the main reason over which the creator of this technology debated was?

She wants to see her dead mother talking with her through a hologram, So?

Someone you loved passed away? Why wait, just pull out any video you have of them, feed them the things you want to hear, and press play. As easy as it can be.

No mourning required. Just get the hell out of reality and get your shit together within no time since they didn’t die right? How something doesn’t exist if it’s right there, in front of you?

I was travelling to my office in the morning when I was listening to this astonishing podcast about how the virtual reality can affect us in upcoming years featuring the interviews of the creators of this technology, and when asked about whether they understand the consequences of this, she was so freaking clue less. She couldn’t even blurt out a one full sentence defending her stand about this.

Somehow a random thought came into my mind about what Elon musk’s speculation about us living in a simulation and we do not have any idea about how to find it out.

I open my eyes, take a look around, and see other vehicles on road, and look at the rainy day’s sky and suddenly feel a shiver as what if what I see around is even a part of an experiment? What if we live in a virtual world where we comprehend everything based on our 5 senses and all of them could be manipulated?

I mean we already figured out how to imitate vision, audition and smell (up to some extent), how hard would it be to go all the way and manipulate all our 5 senses and make a new customized reality for us?

How crazy is this?

I mean, if one can think way further in future, do I have to verify each thing I see? Do I need to fix the filters to what I read and see and hear as to check whether this is real or not? And as it was mentioned at the end of podcast, of course in the end creating fake will be always easy than detecting the fake.

As per one of the characters in GOT said yesterday. Well, yesterday it was just a stupid thing Lord Baelish blurts out as part of his being a jerk process, but then today it seems so significant.

“Fight every battle, everywhere, always, in your mind. Everyone is your enemy, everyone is your friend. Every possible series of events is happening all at once. Live that way and nothing will surprise you. Everything that happens will be something that you’ve seen before.”