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Now the person you are speaking to is going to be n% (partially) emulated. n is going to increase in future. One day there will be a paid feature letting you em

Now the person you are speaking to is going to be n% (partially) emulated. n is going to increase in future. One day there will be a paid feature letting you emulate 100% of yourself to respond to video calls when you are not available. And finally, they will replace yourself even without you knowing, and even after you die.

m463 6y ago
That's an interesting perspective. The bandwidth and requirement to participate correlate.
selfhoster11 6y ago
That won't be possible unless full-brain emulation with live data sync gets invented. Knowledge workers are all about the knowledge that they build up over time when working with a particular environment (be it an industry, a system, or a person/group of people). That knowledge is non-deterministically synthesised in the brain based on the experiences of that person, and being non-deterministic, no AI will come to the same conclusions about every item as this particular human would. In that case, an emulated personality that is meant to make themselves available as your replacement will be an impostor. One that is less of an expert than yourself at best, and at worst one that is misinformed or misled on various issues (which in turn causes other people to be misled or misinformed).
- ben_w 6y ago
  Perhaps. In his Revelation Space universe, Alastair Reynolds categorises AI as Alphas (full brain simulations), Betas (non-conscious mimics which are based on a person’s behaviour over an unspecified but very long time period), and Gammas (which I read as being mere apps with voice interfaces). If the goal is to make it seem like your present when you aren’t, I can believe we’re only a few years away from Reynolds‘ Betas — a Markov chain can’t mimic a human well, but it can mimic a human; GPT3 can do better, and while it still isn’t great, the main reason it feels like it might not be enough for public figures is how easy it is to get it to answer as if it were someone else rather than as The Right Honourable Sir Obvious Madeupname, MP for Oxbridge-upon-Wells who is paying for the chatbot to mimic him in particular.
bredren 6y ago
This was part of what drove me off Twitter after the last election. I realized through my links and tweets that I had already provided enough training data for a bot that could not only sound like me, but share content from the future that I might be interested in.

m463 6y ago

That's an interesting perspective. The bandwidth and requirement to participate correlate.

selfhoster11 6y ago

That won't be possible unless full-brain emulation with live data sync gets invented. Knowledge workers are all about the knowledge that they build up over time when working with a particular environment (be it an industry, a system, or a person/group of people). That knowledge is non-deterministically synthesised in the brain based on the experiences of that person, and being non-deterministic, no AI will come to the same conclusions about every item as this particular human would. In that case, an emulated personality that is meant to make themselves available as your replacement will be an impostor. One that is less of an expert than yourself at best, and at worst one that is misinformed or misled on various issues (which in turn causes other people to be misled or misinformed).

ben_w 6y ago
Perhaps. In his Revelation Space universe, Alastair Reynolds categorises AI as Alphas (full brain simulations), Betas (non-conscious mimics which are based on a person’s behaviour over an unspecified but very long time period), and Gammas (which I read as being mere apps with voice interfaces). If the goal is to make it seem like your present when you aren’t, I can believe we’re only a few years away from Reynolds‘ Betas — a Markov chain can’t mimic a human well, but it can mimic a human; GPT3 can do better, and while it still isn’t great, the main reason it feels like it might not be enough for public figures is how easy it is to get it to answer as if it were someone else rather than as The Right Honourable Sir Obvious Madeupname, MP for Oxbridge-upon-Wells who is paying for the chatbot to mimic him in particular.

bredren 6y ago

This was part of what drove me off Twitter after the last election. I realized through my links and tweets that I had already provided enough training data for a bot that could not only sound like me, but share content from the future that I might be interested in.