I have a new podcast about my fictional writing, which is a magical realist saga about life during the turn of the Millennium. I will be posting podcasts in a new series: A New Mythology for a New Millennium. The first video was generated by five AI tools, including the machine voices of the podcasters themselves. On my blogs, I will explore the oddness of this experience.
AI may intrude on the world of human action with an increasingly loud, alien, and inescapable range of capabilities. It has already left its mark on history. For example, one hypothesis I have seen discussed online is that Blackrock's AI,
Aladdin, has been trained since the 1980s by trades on Wall Street.
In other words, the New York stock market was used as a data source to
build a machine which now is rumoured to control that market.
It is also possible that AI played a role in the covid pandemic. I speculated about this in 2020:
"On 17 April 2020, Yuan Zhiming, Researcher at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and Director of the Wuhan National Biosafety Laboratory, conducted an interview with CCP-approved CGTN. He stated that a 'man-made virus was beyond human intelligence.' He said: 'I have never believed that we humans would have the capability at this time to create such a virus.'
Then it struck me, how magnificently one can lie to the world, while one still technically is telling the truth. A man-made virus may be beyond human intelligence. But perhaps it was not beyond artificial intelligence."
Not only is it possible that AI played a role in the design of the virus, consider the global data gathered during the covid pandemic. This body of information was undoubtedly used to build even more powerful models which rampaged through a succession of human disciplines: politics, medicine, education, society, and economics. No wonder that post-covid culture is AI's next target.
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