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Have you ever thought of having a duplicate of a close friend of yours? Perhaps, if he died, for example, you won't miss him or feel much of a difference. This duplicate will have access to all of your friend's memories and use these them to feed complex algorithms so that the result is nearly an exact copy of what your friend looked and acted like. Maybe you would strongly refuse to wish something like that at the moment, but, when you go through it, you may think again. Isn't it?
It is no news that Artificial Intelligence(Al) has been a controversial topic for the past years. Embedding it in many of our daily activities and technical procedures has been revolutionary. The capabilities of such technology are powerful. From autopiloting drones to facial recognition, AI is and will remain an inherent concept that will be further developed and used in the future.
A Fantasy World -
In an episode of Black Mirror "Be Right Back", a series that is solely showing how Artificial intelligence and other related technologies can fully control our lives and assist us in reaching a point full of problems, hate, or even wars, it features a girl, Martha, who just lost her so-loving boyfriend Ash in a car accident.
A friend of hers signed her up in a program that introduces an AI project to her which feeds on his memories and mimics his way of speaking and the behaviour to a large extent.
After some hesitation, Martha talks to him (Fake Ash). It started by texting him, then escalated to voice calls, where the AI was successfully able to mimic his voice and reply with sentences and words the real Ash would think of. She was fooled, and she already had a hint about that but was still happy.
After some hesitation, Martha talks to him (Fake Ash). It started by texting him, then escalated to voice calls, where the AI was successfully able to mimic his voice and reply with sentences and words the real Ash would think of. She was fooled, and she already had a hint about that but was still happy.
It didn't stop there, though. She went for the final level - a complete impersonation of Ash in a fully robotic body.
He was literally an exact copy of the real one. He had the same facial attitudes, the same body, and even the very small details were present. It was creepy at first, but she got used to it. However, during the process she realized that the AI would never become Ash.
He was literally an exact copy of the real one. He had the same facial attitudes, the same body, and even the very small details were present. It was creepy at first, but she got used to it. However, during the process she realized that the AI would never become Ash.
It will just be a machine that is filled with memories and dialogues of the real him, and if a specific dialogue was not found and the algorithms failed to process that, it became obvious to her that the AI will never be a perfect copy. This is illustrated by the following conversation.
"Martha: He would have worked out what was going on. This wouldn't have ever, ever happened, but if it had, he would have worked it out
Fake Ash: Sorry, hang on, that's a very difficult sentence to process"
And we return to our question, would death stop you from creating an alternate AI sort of project to imitate whoever you lost or fear of losing? If you are still not sure, listen to this story.
Bina and Martine Rothblatt have been married for decades. Martine never wanted to lose Bina ever, so, by commissioning Hanson Robotics, she built a robot, though composed of mainly the head and shoulders, that mimics her wife by feeding it information about her attitudes and behaviour although her wife was still alive. She called this project bina48.
In 2016, bina48 was featured in an episode of A Story of God with Morgan Freeman called Creation. She was able to interact with him and reply to what he was saying with meaningful and "humanly" sentences.
In 2015, Luka co-founder Eugenia Kudya used the resources from her AI Startup to build an online service chat logs for her friend Roman Mazurenko. When she saw the episode after her friend's death, she questioned herself: "Is it letting go, by forcing you to actually feel everything? Or is it just having a dead person in your attic?".
In May 2016, the Roman Mazurenko chatbot was launched and received with mainly positive responses, though 4 of Kuyda's friends were bothered by the project and one of them commented that she "failed to learn the lesson of Black Mirror Episode".
"Martha: He would have worked out what was going on. This wouldn't have ever, ever happened, but if it had, he would have worked it out
Fake Ash: Sorry, hang on, that's a very difficult sentence to process"
And we return to our question, would death stop you from creating an alternate AI sort of project to imitate whoever you lost or fear of losing? If you are still not sure, listen to this story.
Bina and Martine Rothblatt have been married for decades. Martine never wanted to lose Bina ever, so, by commissioning Hanson Robotics, she built a robot, though composed of mainly the head and shoulders, that mimics her wife by feeding it information about her attitudes and behaviour although her wife was still alive. She called this project bina48.
AI Captures the World of Fiction Stories -
In 2016, bina48 was featured in an episode of A Story of God with Morgan Freeman called Creation. She was able to interact with him and reply to what he was saying with meaningful and "humanly" sentences.
In 2015, Luka co-founder Eugenia Kudya used the resources from her AI Startup to build an online service chat logs for her friend Roman Mazurenko. When she saw the episode after her friend's death, she questioned herself: "Is it letting go, by forcing you to actually feel everything? Or is it just having a dead person in your attic?".
In May 2016, the Roman Mazurenko chatbot was launched and received with mainly positive responses, though 4 of Kuyda's friends were bothered by the project and one of them commented that she "failed to learn the lesson of Black Mirror Episode".
Can AI Replace Human: The Conclusion
In a world where humans are assumed, by some portion of people, to be playing the role of God, technologies like AI have given them the ability to synthesize and create projects that act like other people because they lost or are afraid of losing them. Would you do the same if you had the money, position, or privilege?
If the technology in Black Mirror's episode was fully available, would you just settle for the chatbot? Or will you go all the way till the end?
Perhaps you did, will you be able to satisfy all your human urges such as sexual desires? Would your "fake human" have the same empathy, sympathy, or care for you and others?
Would it feel the same?
- Written by Eyad Aoun (EMN Community Member From Egypt)
- Edited by Mridul Goyal (EMN Community Member From New Delhi, India)
Perhaps you did, will you be able to satisfy all your human urges such as sexual desires? Would your "fake human" have the same empathy, sympathy, or care for you and others?
Would it feel the same?
- Written by Eyad Aoun (EMN Community Member From Egypt)
- Edited by Mridul Goyal (EMN Community Member From New Delhi, India)
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