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.”

Interesting/Irrelevant American politics

     How come we start to enjoy things that are extremely irrelevant or not important in our life? 

i am a kind of person who was never interested in politics, it felt as if an extra branch of which i never needed to know anything about. 

i hated the campaigns they made, trying to get ahead of one another while throwing dirt on each other and then making mess of everything while being people who runs the country. 

and then I came across American politics few months ago and it suddenly changed my whole perspective of how one sees politics. Is that all it takes? a person who shocks you with the amount of idiotic things he does? 

and why should I be the one to bother even? 

when it's not even my country? 

but then as i dive into the question of why and how can a person like him lead a whole country with millions of people including different race and women and of different genders, i feel sicken to my stomach each passing day. 

I watch the random and each and every episode featuring comedians who's career been made since this election was over. scrutinising every sentence president says or does or doesn't say or doesn't do. 

It grows like an obsession with something different that you can't keep away from. 

I laugh so hard at their jokes and feel it's impact at the same time. 

feel sorry for those suffering who's health insurances are going to be snatched away in the name of reform, feel sorry for those who were banned from having a hope for their future, and also for those who served their country and now not be able to do so because of something they were born with snatches their right to do so. 

how can we begin to comprehend this all and still keep hope for upcoming days? 

i sit in my office and explain why am i interested in american politics and not aware neither interested of what goes around in my own country. Maybe i don't even give a shit about what they might be going through each day with new shocking news everyday, perhaps to me it's just a matter of shock element and to me it's just something to laugh and then leave it behind. But then it seems even more horrific. 

It's not even that difficult rather it's easy if you consider to find the golden means while making sure there is little damage done to anyone specific or group of people. but people put forth their personal views and wishes to satisfy their own agenda and then it all just goes to a shitty sewer made of hurt and suffering. and that's how we live through, taking on the extreme conditions which we can not understand neither change , while trying to make best of the situations. 

Clockwork Orange

Huh!
Finally after twisting my face to the violence and gore explained in this book, I finally finished it.

This book been tempting me since so many years to finish it, showing its weird cover in my recommendation list on goodreads. So I finally started to read and found out the weird language it was using.

The words like rot and rooker and platties and horrorshow making me cringe every time I came across them made it so difficult to continue it for a long time. Yet I persisted and finished it.

So the clockwork orange, at first you would think it is some kind of code language for something important as an order of the world or a person who runs the things in this world. But no. As it is an ultimately useless and meaning less object in our world, its context is the same in this world. As a clockwork orange is useless, criminals in this world are treated, as if being useless once they commit something that is against the previously defined norms.

The narrator calls himself as "humble" person but each time he says this, you want to slap right across his face to remind him that he is far away from calling himself humble. He does the stuff like hitting people with sticks, raping young girls in his own home(?), robbing people, doing drugs and the whole other violent activities and seem to explain them as if they are normal activities like drinking water and walking on road.

He is young and  lives with his parents after being into reform school for his previous mischievous behavior but reform school seem to be turning him into a hard core criminal.
Once he gets caught while robbing a elder lady alone in her home, his friends (whom he calls droogies, yuck! ) somehow escape but then Alex finds himself in prison after being proved of his crime.
You'd think the story would take a good end as Alex being humble in real in prison at least, but noooo. He does his shit even in prison, trying to kill and fight with other prison mates.

Then the government has come up with a brilliant plan of reforming criminals into civilized people by a psychological methods of making them sick while showing crimes on screen. It seems to be effective on Alex and soon he starts to feel sick with the thought of crime plus his favorite hobby listening to classical music like Mozart. The method effectively ruins his thinking ability making himself cringe with the violent things he would do to other people.
Alex is released and allowed to roam in the world outside as a free man but he struggles with the life as he leads on since nothing in the world makes him happy anymore.

In the meantime he starts to get thoughts like killing himself and he tries to commit suicide after not being able to stand a symphony by Beethoven which would have made him so happy before his treatment in prison.

He wakes up in hospital with his bones broken and again given a psychological treatment to reverse the previous one, he seems to be cured since  he has the thoughts of crime again, and he ends his not so "humble" story with note that he still exists and that we heard his story once.

to be honest, I did not even find any meaning in the book except some small insights.

I think the main thing explained in this plot was that we are  to be grateful for the world we live in because we have the opportunities to choose among the choices. When a higher authority limits your choices and then it leads to a absolute monotonous life.
 When reforming the criminals the method of changing their natural responses to the crime and hate cant help them. Since after certain period they can get those back as Alex does. They only seem to be interested in changing the outer shell of a man while the criminal instinct can not be fully erased from the core unless the man himself changes.

The only thing I loved about this book was that as they had so many different words for things. they had a word for Cigarettes. Can you guess what it is???





"Cancer"


Isnt its pretty amazing idea? To call something with its effect down the road. would't you think twice before having a "Cancer" if it might result into having the actual one.

So Clockwork Orange, Either has a real deep meaning or is overrated like "Catcher in the Rye", Either Alex is just a piece of shit in a shitty world or he is just a genius who seem to show his existence though being a Clockwork Orange.