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We\u2019ve lived but a few years so far into the age when arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence can pro\u00adduce con\u00advinc\u00ading sto\u00adries, songs, essays, poems, nov\u00adels, and even films. For many of us, these recent\u00adly imple\u00adment\u00aded func\u00adtions have already come to feel nec\u00ades\u00adsary in our dai\u00adly life, but it may sur\u00adprise us to con\u00adsid\u00ader how many peo\u00adple had long assumed that com\u00adput\u00aders could already per\u00adform them. That belief sure\u00adly owes in part to the roles played by effec\u00adtive\u00adly sen\u00adtient machines in pop\u00adu\u00adlar fic\u00adtions since at least the ear\u00adly decades of the twen\u00adti\u00adeth cen\u00adtu\u00adry. Revis\u00adit\u00ading George Orwell\u2019s Nine\u00adteen Eighty-Four<\/a>, we even find a device very much like today\u2019s large lan\u00adguage mod\u00adels in use at the Min\u00adistry of Truth, the employ\u00ader of pro\u00adtag\u00ado\u00adnist Win\u00adston Smith.<\/p>\n With\u00adin the Min\u00adistry is \u201ca whole chain of sep\u00ada\u00adrate depart\u00adments deal\u00ading with pro\u00adle\u00adtar\u00adi\u00adan lit\u00ader\u00ada\u00adture, music, dra\u00adma, and enter\u00adtain\u00adment gen\u00ader\u00adal\u00adly. Here were pro\u00adduced rub\u00adbishy news\u00adpa\u00adpers con\u00adtain\u00ading almost noth\u00ading except sport, crime and astrol\u00ado\u00adgy, sen\u00adsa\u00adtion\u00adal five-cent nov\u00adel\u00adettes, films ooz\u00ading with sex, and sen\u00adti\u00admen\u00adtal songs which were com\u00adposed entire\u00adly by mechan\u00adi\u00adcal means on a spe\u00adcial kind of kalei\u00addo\u00adscope known as a ver\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtor.\u201d Much lat\u00ader in the nov\u00adel, Smith over\u00adhears a hit song com\u00adposed on that very kalei\u00addo\u00adscope, \u201cwith\u00adout any human inter\u00adven\u00adtion what\u00adev\u00ader,\u201d sung by a woman of this dystopi\u00adan Eng\u00adland\u2019s low\u00adest class, whose very base\u00adness lib\u00ader\u00adates it from the watch\u00adful eye that Big Broth\u00ader\u2019s vast sur\u00adveil\u00adlance sys\u00adtem keeps on his osten\u00adsi\u00adbly priv\u00adi\u00adleged Par\u00adty mem\u00adbers.<\/p>\n All the \u201cpro\u00adles\u201d real\u00adly require, in the view of the state, is the free\u00addom to sat\u00adis\u00adfy their vices and a steady stream of paci\u00adfy\u00ading media. The extru\u00adsions of the ver\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtor may now bring to mind the ever-increas\u00ading quan\u00adti\u00adties of \u201cAI slop,\u201d often cre\u00adat\u00aded with van\u00adish\u00ading\u00adly small amounts of human inter\u00adven\u00adtion, whose poten\u00adtial to flood the inter\u00adnet has late\u00adly become a mat\u00adter of pub\u00adlic con\u00adcern. What\u2019s more chill\u00ading to con\u00adsid\u00ader is that such low-effort, high-vol\u00adume con\u00adtent would\u00adn\u2019t have attained such a pres\u00adence if it weren\u2019t gen\u00aduine\u00adly pop\u00adu\u00adlar. Much like the junk cul\u00adture pumped out by the Min\u00adistry of Truth, AI slop reflects less the ill intent of (or at least neglect by) the pow\u00aders that be than the unde\u00admand\u00ading nature of the pub\u00adlic.<\/p>\n Per\u00adhaps we can pro\u00advi\u00adsion\u00adal\u00adly chalk this one up in the \u201cOrwell was right\u201d col\u00adumn. It\u2019s pos\u00adsi\u00adble that, in light of real tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal devel\u00adop\u00adments, even Isaac Asi\u00admov could be con\u00advinced to give it to him. Here on Open Cul\u00adture, we recent\u00adly fea\u00adtured Asi\u00admov\u2019s cri\u00adtique of Nine\u00adteen Eighty-Four<\/a> as a poor prophe\u00adcy of the future, not least from a tech\u00adno\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal stand\u00adpoint. That piece was writ\u00adten in 1980 at the very end of an \u201cAI win\u00adter,\u201d one of the fal\u00adlow peri\u00adods in arti\u00adfi\u00adcial intel\u00adli\u00adgence research. A boom was soon to come, but the tru\u00adly aston\u00adish\u00ading devel\u00adop\u00adments would\u00adn\u2019t hap\u00adpen until the twen\u00adty-twen\u00adties, about thir\u00adty years after Asi\u00admov\u2019s death. When describ\u00ading the ver\u00adsi\u00adfi\u00adca\u00adtor, Orwell was pre\u00adsum\u00adably extrap\u00ado\u00adlat\u00ading from the dis\u00adtract\u00ading, dis\u00adpos\u00adable enter\u00adtain\u00adments of nine\u00adteen-for\u00adties Eng\u00adland. Even if his read\u00aders could\u00adn\u2019t believe the idea of that sort of thing being cre\u00adat\u00aded auto\u00admat\u00adi\u00adcal\u00adly, more than a few prob\u00ada\u00adbly agreed with his diag\u00adno\u00adsis of its qual\u00adi\u00adty. Now, col\u00adlec\u00adtive human intel\u00adli\u00adgence may face its most for\u00admi\u00adda\u00adble chal\u00adlenger, but indi\u00advid\u00adual human dis\u00adcern\u00adment has nev\u00ader been more valu\u00adable.<\/p>\n via Boing Boing<\/a><\/p>\n Relat\u00aded con\u00adtent:<\/p>\n Isaac Asi\u00admov Reviews George Orwell\u2019s Nine\u00adteen Eighty-Four and Calls It \u201cNot Sci\u00adence Fic\u00adtion, But a Dis\u00adtort\u00aded Nos\u00adtal\u00adgia for a Past that Nev\u00ader Was\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n George Orwell Pre\u00addict\u00aded Cam\u00aderas Would Watch Us in Our Homes; He Nev\u00ader Imag\u00adined We\u2019d Glad\u00adly Buy and Install Them Our\u00adselves<\/a><\/p>\n Aldous Hux\u00adley to George Orwell: My Hell\u00adish Vision of the Future is Bet\u00adter Than Yours (1949)<\/a><\/p>\n Sci-Fi Writer Arthur C. Clarke Pre\u00addicts the Future in 1964: Arti\u00adfi\u00adcial Intel\u00adli\u00adgence, Instan\u00adta\u00adneous Glob\u00adal Com\u00admu\u00adni\u00adca\u00adtion, Remote Work, Sin\u00adgu\u00adlar\u00adi\u00adty & More<\/a><\/p>\n Based in Seoul,\u00a0Col\u00adin<\/a>\u00a0M<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>\u00a0writes and broad\u00adcasts on cities, lan\u00adguage, and cul\u00adture. He\u2019s the author of the newslet\u00adter\u00a0Books on Cities<\/a>\u00a0as well as the books\u00a0\ud55c\uad6d \uc694\uc57d \uae08\uc9c0<\/a>\u00a0(No Sum\u00adma\u00adriz\u00ading Korea) and\u00a0Kore\u00adan Newtro<\/a>.\u00a0Fol\u00adlow him on the social net\u00adwork for\u00admer\u00adly known as Twit\u00adter at\u00a0@colinm<\/a>a<\/a>rshall<\/a>.<\/p>\n \t\t