Since we no longer have a constitution worth mentioning, according to the Supreme Court and Congress, and Online White Collar Crime might as well be a redundant oxymoron, with the Pentagon accusing even Microsoft and Google of possible treason, my only protection is I have no money worth extorting me for. Even MGM studios was hacked, the Pentagon was hacked, the banks are getting hacked, while Goofy decided the solution was to have Microsoft certify every wall socket. Extortion is only a racket, when its legal, and the Tea Party is hiring militant atheists, to teach them how to create better AI to censor half of reality.
Remember, though ... THe Same AI that is censoring news, and crating false narratives, is also making Deep Fake Porn of famous celebrities and the images and videos are nearly impossible to disprove.
The real joke is, that the latest Chinese TV star is a totally synthetic AI creation, that is getting all the attention. Critics describe her as "hyper-realistic" and describe AI as "super-persuasive", because calling their audiences gullible as hell is a death sentence. You've Gotta Fake It Til Ya Make It Baby! Real people just aren't fake enough, so I work on the mathematics to make bots even more fake, because they're already realistic enough. Taylor Swift would make an excellent model, for a seven foot tall Barbie. Without a sense of humor, they can't censor half of reality worth a crap, and will never be able to keep up. The real trick, is to encourage the idiots to shoot themselves in the foot, repeatedly, just like the Catholic Church did censoring Galileo. AI is analog which, for computers, means its either impossible or expensive to defeat using digital approaches. Its the same nonsense we're seeing in quantum mechanics and fuzzy logic, with governments spending rediculous amounts to prove nothing.
I've seen it, but modern AI can do the subject much more justice. Al Pacino isn't that good an actor. The idiots have been hellbent on copyrighting and patenting the laws of nature, ever since the best minds on the planet told them, it can't be done. Now, their own AI are proving they can't control their own AI, and I give them the analog logic to prove it to themselves, and each other. The Chinese are ahead in AI, and the US is counting on quantum computers saving their bacon, while my work demands a sense of humor, that's anathema in academia, so you can play the two off each other.
Oh, I am well aware. it was a poor example of AI taking over the Entertainment industry. But I found it interesting, and somewhat prophetic, having come out nearly 20 years before he Major AI Revolution that is sweeping the world right now
Its actually an example of how badly they've used our taboos to censor half of reality. Movies like the Matrix and Terminator are what conservatives demand, while the book I'm writing challenges everything they stand for, on physical, mathematical, and philosophical grounds. They killed Socrates, but the peasants and Plato kept his legend alive, and the Catholic church was forced to adopt his ethics. Today, they're still trying to kill Socrates, and finding out the hard way, you can't kill the truth. My book, explains how to automate the truth, and stomp back! AI are just machines, and the operator is the critical component, with a brain that's the most powerful quantum computer on the planet. The Chinese government has made it legal for AI to own copyrights, and everyone has been stealing every bit of data they can from each other, with no hope for a quantum internet anytime soon.
I have to wonder. Between offerings like Matrix & Terminator, coupled with writings from Isaac Asimov, and the "New" Battlestar Galactica, will a self aware AI actually have an ideology? Matrix turned humanity into a power source for a megalomaniacal AI. Terminator simply decided humanity had no purpose and wiped us out, BSG came to the same conclusion, but the new breed Cylon had a deep religious conviction of their own, and Asimov's Robot eventually become sentient and have decided to wrap us in a blanket and protect us. Is any of that plausible? Or would a dispassionate Sentient AI simply leave us to destroy ourselves and take off to start their own society, leaving us without our oh so valued tech to start over or die?
Self-awareness, and consciousness, only remain mysteries, along with quantum mechanics, fuzzy logic, Relativity, and Chaos Theory, because they're taboo in academia. Its a Singularity, which means a universal recursion in the principle of identity. That means everything in the universe can be thought of as conscious, or made of Lime Jello if you prefer. The issue is not whether AI are capable of consciousness, but when does it become impossible to tell the difference. My work, gives them the first real sense of humor... Note that humor and sex are intimately related, along with food, making a Woody Allen style Orgasmitron the next big hit at the Republican convention. Half the chips will be made in China, and its the ancient Chinese blessing and curse. A way to deal with over-population, that ensures everyone dies happy. The Japanese will help them make it user friendly.
The Japanese are already allowing citizens to marry video game & Anime characters. Full Torso Automata are greeting tourist and guests at restaurants and hotels and taking orders, and making reservations. They currently seem to have personalities of their own. Hiroshi Ishiguro was surprised when the Robot clone of him gave him a dirty look, contrary to its programming. I'm not sure that consciousness and self awareness are quite the same thing. Lime Jello may be conscious, but I think it is safe to say it will never jump up and try to defend itself from being eaten.
For all practical purposes, there's no reason to believe Lime Jello is conscious, but I'm sure some will claim it is, because its made from animal products. The Japanese believe even robots are alive, and are gadget freaks, who often treat their technology like pets. I don't know if they eat Lime Jello, but their women have been complaining for decades, that its hard enough to get laid in a country of polite workaholics, without having to compete with online porn, VR, and transformer robots. Maybe they know something we don't, but I really don't wanna know myself. Theoretically, my book can be extrapolated by any computer to about 20,000 pages, including at least 400 pages of pornographic jokes that are enough to make anyone lose their religion, but the idea is to have the machines "Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before!" All the medical research is for men, so it should be easier to distract them with an Orgasmitron. You can already buy a cheap blowjob online. The hardware is stupid, but my work helps the AI to do the VR work better. Someone recently found a way to use software to cut the demand for dedicated AI in half, which means even home enthusiasts will soon be able to generate their own programs, using open source models, and all I have to do is keep publishing more work online. They could even declare their Orgasmitron a religious rite, and die both happy and spiritual. No doubt, Fox News will protest, but the porn industry has real lawyers.
I was looking at it more like the Slime creatures, Gary Gygax created for Dungeons and Dragons. I'd love to go to Japan and explore a bit. But that won't be happening any time soon. VR sex toys that sync to porn sites are becoming commonplace. I'll probably look deeper into it when someone comes out with the kind of Androids from Nier Automata. The way things are going, It won't be long before full immersion VR will be on the market. Haptic body suits, neural interfaces, etc. The Movie Surrogates with Bruce Willis comes to mind. In the 90's I was Webmaster for several Adult BBS's and BDSM Websites. When the ISP's that hosted them threatened to shut them down, we were mysteriously saved when he ISP's suddenly told us that, "Due to recent decisions, we have decided to suspend action against your Site." We never asked for help, but we were linked to several major Porn Organizations, including Adult Video Companies. (Porn Lawyers are Scary.)
Haptics are only good for arcade style sex. What you really want is direct brain stimulation, that fools your neurons. Already, surgeons have discovered the exact spot in your brain to make you have an orgasm, which it should be possible to do using something like the Mind Maze headset, and all the computer has to do is provide the appropriate AI, that can fake your greatest fantasies. Mine would contain a clone of your sense of humor, allowing it to mathematically provide customized VR and sound, making it much cheaper and of more practical use than elaborate haptics.
Every time I read something about virtual sex, whether Science or Science Fiction, I find myself wondering. What would happen, if someone with Epilepsy used something that fed direct signals to the brain.
They've already figured out how to prevent seizures using AI to manipulate your brain waves. Think of your brain as an FM radio, or a musical instrument. Using my analog logic, you can adapt the machine to the individual's own radio, or instrument, and Fake It Til Ya Make It Baby! The machine can fake sex better than a human being, because it knows everything you want, and could not care less about reality. In many respects, it will know you much better than you know yourself.
I have to question any "One size fits all," approach I see when it comes to seizure disorders. There are so many different types of seizure disorder and so many different causes for the conditions. In some cases, epilepsy is clearly linked to genetic factors, developmental brain abnormalities, infection, traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumors, or other identifiable problems. A friend of mine suffers from a seizure disorder that was due to a traumatic physical injury, and is triggered by physiological conditions as well as outside stimuli, such as flashing lights. I can't believe hat ALL types of Epilepsy have been found, diagnosed and treated successfully. A guy convinced my friend that smoking weed would cure his epilepsy, and it nearly killed him. The side effects of the Marijuana cased increased sensitivity in his vision, relaxed the optic nerves. The result was that, even turning on the light in his bedroom caused him to have a seizure. It doesn't seem possible that it could map an area of the brain that has been physically damaged, and impulses jumping across the damaged area are what are thought to cause, or at least contribute to the actual seizure occurring.
Question it all you want, but the AI can stop any seizure dead in its tracks. Either your neurons can function, or they can't, and all it has to do is make sure they play nice. These days, they're working on replacing your dna and neurons if necessary, but pattern matching alone is a simply way to deal with any number of problems. Your neurons talk, and we are currently learning how they talk and, finally, making outrageous progress. The neurons in your cerebellum are five layers deep, with the outside ones using faster brain waves, for sensations. Brain waves are a quick way to determine how the rest of the brain functions, and AI are kicking everyone's pretentions to the curb. AI can calculate the orbits of the planets, without requiring the laws of motion, and can learn English, without learning any grammar. Like quantum mechanics, it is making fools out of academics. This too shall pass, but not until academia falls apart entirely. I give then ten years tops. They are literally automating themselves out of a job, because machines can be programmed to tell the truth. Half of all information is fated, making the operator the last weak link in computing. You can program a super smart AI, but the theory of everything can leverage the fact the truth itself is up to 125% efficient. Its a trade-off, between efficiency and creativity, and efficiency wins. Gravity is simply efficient, and the earth's gravity appears to be not too hot, and not too cold, but just right, for life as we know it. The same with the moon, composition, sun, galaxy and the big bang. After awhile, someone is going to notice, but academia is helping to censor the knowledge. Its pattern matching, and the joke will only get worse as they go along. You can run, but you cannot hide from the simple fact, we appear to occupy a magical Goldilocks Universe! Physicists prefer to collect ALL THE EVIDENCE, but the AI are ahead of them already.
I doubt everything. I appreciate what you are trying to do, and I would love to pass on information that would help him.. He's pretty much house bound and doesn't even watch TV. He's been to 4 difference Neurologists at 3 different specialty hospitals and 2 Neurosurgeons. No offense, but unless you have the PhD's and Clinical experience to trump them, I can't take any of to him. It wold be irresponsible of me.
I am not trying to tell anyone how to live their lives. I was brain damaged at three, almost died from grand mal seizures, and was abused. Forget about Phds, my work is a hundred years ahead of anything academia is doing, because I'm a biological computer of sorts, and don't share their taboos against humor and the dictionary. You can't stop the signal Mel, the truth is everywhere, and up to 125% efficient, when the light bulb comes on. My book is actually written for an AI to read, because academics are too stupid, and are helping the Tea Party to censor half of reality. Galileo was merely the first sign, the Tower of Babel will fall. I would estimate half the sciences are 200 years behind the rest now, making it all too easy to automate the fucking truth.