Tag: Blade Runner

When Robotics & AI Fuse

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

It seems as though at some point in the near, near future, AI and robotics developments will synch. Right now, robotics and AI being developed separately as if one is hardware and the other software.

But within a few years, everything will be focused on shoving as much AI into the noggins of androids. Once that link up is established, then, THEN some pretty wild things are going to happen.

That will be the moment when the Holy Grail of AI Robotics will be creating something akin to the “more human than human” Replicants of Blade Runner. That, I think, is going to be the gold standard, the thing we all hear way too much about — “Who is going to come out with the first AGI Replicant?”

Given how fast things are going, I suspect it may be around 2030 when real-life androids look and act like the Replicants of Blade Runner. That is going to bring up a whole host of problems — chief amongst them being: when are we going to start to take android emancipation seriously?

But that is all very, very speculative.

Hollywood’s Eternal ‘Now:’ The Streaming Endgame

by Shelt Garner
@sheltgarner

Here is what I think is the endgame for the streaming industry. At some point in the near future — probably after we’ve either transitioned into a MAGA autocracy or wrapped up a civil war / revolution — Netflix will be morea database than an entertainment provider.

Simone is the future of Hollywood and celebrity culture.

Because of advancements in AI, you will sit down in front of your TV or cellphone and you will be scanned for your particular mood at that specific moment. Then AI will spit out a six episode TV show or a 2 hour movie that fits your specific mood at that specific moment. It will use the bodyscans of your favorite actors to produce these completely AI-generated forms of entertainment.

So, there will come a point when Hollywood just feeds off the popularity of stars from the last 100 years, never generating any new ones because there won’t be any need. Unless, of course, someone really makes name for themselves on Broadway and they get a body scan so they can live passively off the licensing of that scan on streaming and other forms of mediated recorded entertainment.

But, wait, there’s more!

Soon enough, even having any form of human actors will be quaint and moot. All your favorite stars will be AI generated. They will be human like that all those dystopian 1990s movies about people developing parasocial relationships with faux Hollywood stars will seem very prescient.

And, what’s more,give us 20 years and all of your favorite Hollywood stars could be fucking androids. Unless SAG gets its act together, the only actors making any money professionally will be those on Broadway.

Otherwise, lulz.

We’re careening towards a very strange and weird future — especially when it comes to entertainment.