{"id":3464,"date":"2021-07-19T19:16:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3464"},"modified":"2021-07-19T19:16:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T19:16:00","slug":"tech-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2021\/07\/tech-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fn3KWM1kuAw\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"700\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why those Boston Dynamics robots invaded the innanet last week, but yeah. It\u2019s amazing.<\/p>\n<p>The most absurd progress to me is energy: ten years ago, those robots had giant power cables attached to them. The fact that we achieved autonomy on what looks like heavy machines, while making them do 180 jumps and dance, is insane. My brain was like the Leonardo meme, pointing at the screen and screaming \u201cCGI!!\u201d from time to time. It\u2019s real though.<\/p>\n<p>The absolute creepiest accuracy to me is AI voices. I guess you\u2019ve heard of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/movies\/news\/is-the-anthony-bourdain-ai-voice-in-roadrunner-an-ethical-lapse-maybe-so-but-documentaries-have-been-sliding-away-from-reality-for-years-column\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bourdain\u2019s documentary using his voice<\/a> without him being alive. I believe it\u2019s worse than anything. It\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WvA6TkYuQP8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">T2 nightmare<\/a> that we couldn\u2019t possibly think would be doable like that and yet, here we are. Voices are ingrained in our souls like no picture ever will. A familiar, loved voice is the truest trust. It\u2019s the most unfalsifiable thing ever. It was.<\/p>\n<p>The voice of someone you adore is one of the most sacred thing ever. Knowing that technology can be abused \u2014and will be\u2014 to sell us some stuff by puppeteering our emotions on a whole other level, I\u2019m not feeling it at all. Leave us alone.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cbut what about the people who could use this to mourn, having lost someone early or in an accident?\u201d<\/em> Sure, but we\u2019re entering some ethical seas that we will have to manage on top of others. Mourning would never stop, you would listen to your dead folks and have conversation with them? It\u2019s probably <em>really<\/em> not healthy at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t know why those Boston Dynamics robots invaded the innanet last week, but yeah. It\u2019s amazing. The most absurd progress to me is energy: ten years ago, those robots had giant power cables attached to them. The fact that we achieved autonomy on what looks like heavy machines, while making them do 180 jumps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3464\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}