[ExI] the future gets uglier

[Darin Sunley]

Or the B-plot in this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnJxoPQXJOQ

Forget flying cars, where are my bipedal humanoid transforming fighter
jets!?

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:58 AM John Grigg via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> What you describe sounds like this 2002 film...
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuAjeuKXX7c
>
> On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 1:46 AM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>> Companies are apparently getting tired of paying social media
>> “influencers” big bucks to tout their products. Enter artificial
>> intelligence. Japanese startup Aww Inc. has introduced Imma, whose bright
>> pink hair and “goofy dance moves” brought her 300,000 followers on
>> Instagram — and landed the company seven figures in seed funding to develop
>> more bots, including Imma’s “brother,” Plustic Boy. The company says Imma
>> was actually started as an art project, but companies wanted to sponsor
>> her. Virtual influencers “have real business potential,” says Christopher
>> Travers, who runs a website reporting on the trend. “They are cheaper to
>> work with than humans in the long term, are 100% controllable, can appear
>> in many places at once, and, most importantly, they never age or die.”
>>  bill w
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