Was just talking to a friend about some guy who all the experts think is cheating at top level chess but they can’t actually catch him at it. His moves are too good, they are identical to top chess computer programs which are beating all human players ever more convincingly, and he never looks up from the board which might be that he doesn’t want to expose his eyes to the camera because maybe he’s got some weird lenses and a receiver implanted into his head and a crew with a computer in a secret room somewhere, and that led to the subject of google glass and how you don’t really need to know facts any more so schools should maybe teaching more analytical thought, which they never really have.
I don’t know, that future, though I am sure it is coming, is a little bit unnerving to me. I like having a few names and dates stored in my head, October, 1492, April, 1775, June 6th, 1944. I don’t want to not know what happened then. I want to keep the order of the planets in my head, I don’t want to have to access Wikipedia whenever I think about that. I hope that I can always have conversations with other people who know a few basic things and aren’t just acting as spokespeople for their glasses.
I’m creeped out, but also turned on.
Speaking of futuristic stuff which might seem cool to some, but kind of creep out those adverse to change, take a look at the photo to the right. This very real girl, Valeria Lukyanova, bills herself as a real life Barbie Doll. Art copies life and then life copies art.
Then the conversation moved on to AI, which is not a great leap at all from Google glass and he said that it really won’t take much for a computer to be a companion to a human being, because most people are satisfied with a “Hello, how are ya” now and then and robots can certainly be programmed for that. Robots will pass the Turing test soon, as far as the average person is concerned, and from that point it will get harder and harder to spot them, even for experts.
It was a good conversation.
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