RE: My Response to PoliticoMagazine's - Could a Robot Be President?
This coincides with the recent news about how "fake video" and "fake audio" are approaching the point of being impossible to distinguish from the real stuff. So pretty soon (or maybe today, with the secret / bleeding edge tech), it'll be possible to create fake videos of any celebrity (or you, or me) saying ANYTHING.
Yeah totally expect this to happen ever since playing Metal Gear Solid. Just wonder if there's gonna be some central AI that'll personalise feeds with fakevideo/audio for people on the fly without any way to cross check well enough lol. https://steemit.com/asksteem/@kevinwong/is-total-information-censorship-manipulation-possible
unique strengths of emotion and unexpected cognition (aka art).
Yeah i believe this can't be automated away.
Lying is a creative act, but clearly not limited to homo sapiens, or even primates- regardless one's value assigned to it, it's inarguably creative ("unexpected cognition" in your words), yet it succumbed to cybernetic analysis and manipulation years ago. I really don't think any human skill or capacity is more than about 15 years from effective automation, and probably nearly all have already been in the most advanced lab environments. I think it's foolishly short-sighted to avoid talking about this seriously with a view towards actually developing some sort of symbiotic relationship with inevitable technology, as the alternatives are far less than satisfying.
Exactly, it's easy to have this conclusion if one isn't a human supremacist xD