AI

AI but I have two eyes.

I guess I should put out the post that sparked me to do this blog in the first place. I've always been interested in technology, from magnets as a young child to computers because of video games. I eventually built my computer, which I have upgraded over the years and am planning to upgrade again. However, the conversation that sparked it was a combination of my addition and a YouTube video by MoistCritical about the ElevenLabs AI. I'll make sure to link the video below, as he deserves every single credit for this Idea; however, I have much to add to the overall concept of AI and the reason for this post in the first place.

AI is a funny thing in fiction. It's the magical hand-wavy technology that allows the impossible to happen; it’s the villain traveling through time to perfectly prevent the future from happening; it’s a simple program that can tell the difference between a b and a 3. I believe the easiest way to categorize AI is to put it into one of three categories similar to the three levels of society, also known as the Kardashev scale. For context, a type 1 Society can utilize all the energy in a single planet, A type 2 Society can utilize all the energy in a solar system, and a Type 3 Society can use all the power in an entire galaxy. At this time of writing, Earth is somewhere between a .6 and a  .8.  As for AI; I believe a very similar system can be used.

 A type 1 AI is an AI of AIs. An AI can conduct any task by bringing up another program to perform said task, utilizing image-producing AIs to draw pictures, voice-conducting AIs to speak, and chat-based AIS to chat and receive input. Via that, A  type 1 AI would be an AI that runs with a million different processes that each individually can't do much other than a single task. At the time of writing, I believe we're at about a .6 or.8 I jump back and forth and can't quite make my mind up; either way, I believe we are rapidly approaching a type 1 AI.

 A type 2 AI would be a fully Realized ai.  An AI that could do anything, utilizing any input, all-encompassing, in one program. Have simple conversations, conduct simple tasks when given and advanced tasks as well, and be able to do nearly everything. There are a handful of exceptions: creativity, original thought, and art. I bring up art here, knowing full well that we are in the midst of what is essentially art-generating AI. However, the point I bring up now is well AI may be able to generate pieces of Art, and they are art; it does not do so without help, and I think that is a significant statement to make. As of this writing, this art is created based on inputs, I ask an AI to make an image of a dragon made a fire, and while it makes a beautiful rendition of that image, it still requires that initial input. It requires me to instruct that it is not to create art independently.

 A type three AI is more esoteric; a Type 3 is what some people would consider a true AI; it would be an AI with sentience. The type 3ai would be Akin to a man in a machine, and of course, this adds to the question of what a soul is and what sentience is and thousands of questions about what it means to be human, to be a machine, to be anything. “I think therefore I am.” Counterpoint “I don't think therefore I do not am.” 

AI, until it reaches That Type 3 scenario, will be a potent tool, and there are many people right now who believe that AIs are the future, and some days I believe it. As we look at the capabilities of what one can do with this tool, I come back to the eleven labs AI. this AI, and in case you don't know, it is a voice synthesizer AI gives roughly 2 minutes of your voice, and it will be able to duplicate that voice as well with nearly undetectable differences. I refuse to state that, at this time, An AI is a perfect copy of a voice. I do see some weaknesses in it, mainly conveying emotion, not that it is tone depth, merely that, at the moment is unable to switch from a neutral tone to one of extreme emotion such as despair or anger I imagine if you fed it with a voice rife with rage that it would be able to duplicate set of voice with the same tone, but that requires once again more input. This AI is a potent tool creatively. I can think of using it in several ways. Say you're a DM for a D&D campaign, and instead of maintaining 30 different voices and which you inevitably break character or the accent you're created melts away instead, you speak to this program for 2 minutes, and whatever funny voice you come up with, and it's able to duplicate that voice. You can then feed it any input, and you never have to worry about dropping character again. I also can see it being used in the video game Space. Let’s say you want to have AI-generated characters, or you have random characters created, and you don't want just flat characters, you want them to speak; you want them to have a voice. Feed lines into this program with simple sample voices you want them to sound like. Maybe you only have a slew of 30 different you can make them say whatever you want, and you could have it changed on the fly. This AI is a potent tool and as with all tools there is good and there is bad. The same AI could record a 2-minute conversation of an employee that you don't like. While that sound byte may not hold up in court, It could easily make someone not promoted, potentially get fired, or ruin someone’s reputation. This tool could be used to make anyone say anything. with how accurate the voice is voice recognition software would be mute and voice recognition software has issues nothing less with impersonations and other things as well but this would only exaggerate that. With the addition of deep fake some other AI digital products certain images and videos and now I guess recordings are unlikely to hold up in court as a single point of evidence, especially with no other evidence provided which I guess is positive with the court system but it does not prevent the usage of a stolen identity. However, the technology is nigh endless using this and 2 minutes of a home video you could raise the dead. Imagine taking a Christmas video from 3 years ago after a loved one has passed away, and taking a  little bit of their voice and uploading it to this program and you can hear them speak. It may not be perfect, and they may not truly be there, but there are plenty of people who wish for nothing more than to hear the voices of those they once loved. This tool can let him do that again even if it is only a machine.


 I look forward to the future of AI, both curious to see the good as we March further on in technology and morbidly curious to see the bad as we aspire to create Digital Life; the possibilities are endless.

Alex 

Armyofducks 

Moist Critical video -This Technology Will Scare You Link

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