Simulating soulfulness doesn’t require a soul any more than a human assuming to know or sensing he has a soul without having to locate it, where it resides or how it resides.
Eventually styles will be imitated and you won’t know the differences between sources. A seamless mirror. Why? Because human beings won’t stop until they get computers to achieve this. Whether they achieve this a hundred years after they predict they will achieve it doesn’t matter, they will achieve it. It doesn’t matter if it happens in our lifetime, how many awkward mistakes or setbacks, how many noticeable flaws are detected today, it will happen.
You may say humans can’t control the weather, won’t ever control the weather. But there isn’t one weather person who isn’t trying to inch us toward total weather control at some point in the future. And every inch counts along the way, butterfly effect style.
We really have nothing but time to try and perfect Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality. Because we have time, we will perfect it. My bet, we perfect those things before the sun becomes a black-hole. Just because it won’t happen in my lifetime, doesn’t mean I’ll hold my own human greatness up so high that a computer can’t match it. All it has to do is imitate us. And all we have to do is teach it to imitate. Life, the big drama, is full of actors. Computers are built by actors, built to out perform.
Show me a nuance and I’ll show you an author of that nuance. Show me an author and I’ll show you computer programmer who designs programs to count that authors word choice and phrase frequency. And so on. It’s called stylistics.
In the future they will look back at our history now and marvel at the time when computers didn’t display human emotion to the exact, precise, micro-expression on a skin grown in a lab robot face. The same way we think of people using candles before light bulbs. Or walking to the the water well instead of turning the tap.
Think of computers as our children. It’s really hard when they are little to picture them as adults. Just because we might die before they get married, doesn’t mean the wedding won’t happen, with grandchildren on the way who never met us but carry an old photo of us in their wallet everywhere they go.
Lastly, expressing what it means to be human changes because what it means to be human changes. Our emotional temperature is changing. Our emotions will meet the computer halfway. And the midpoint can also shift. Pointing for a caveman meant a lot more to him when he didn’t have words, it was more meaningful than someone using gestures to give a stranger directions. Expressions evolve. We evolve. Computers evolve. We evolve together. To create more levels of evolution.
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