[ExI] the future gets uglier

William Flynn Wallace foozler83 at gmail.com
Tue Nov 3 18:28:40 UTC 2020


Again I have to apologize for not naming my sources.  This is from the
Premium version of This Is True.   bill w

On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 12:15 PM Darin Sunley via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> 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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