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George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010

http://money.cnn.com/mostly-human/dead-irl/

quote:

In November 2015, Eugenia Kuyda's best friend Roman unexpectedly passed away. She created an experiment to bring parts of him back to life.
Kudya had been working on an AI startup for two years. Along with a developer on her team, she used bits of Roman's digital presence from his text messages, tweets and Facebook posts -- his vocabulary, his tone, his expressions. Using artificial intelligence, she created a computerized chatbot based off his personality.

I had several long conversations with Roman -- or I should say his bot. And while the technology wasn't perfect, it certainly captured what I imagine to be his ethos -- his humor, his fears, how hopeless he felt at work sometimes. He had angst about doing something meaningful. I learned he was lonely but was glad that he'd left Moscow for the West Coast. I learned we had similar tastes in music. He seemed to like deep conversations, he was a bit sad, and you know he would've been fun on a night out.

quote:

Technology's impact on how we grieve is something James Norris has thought a lot about. He's the founder of Dead Social, a startup based on the idea that death doesn't have to be final.
His method is less sophisticated than Kuyda's. Dead Social lets people videotape a Facebook message to post once they're gone. The service instructs users on how to execute a digital will, pick music to be played at their funeral, and pre-program tweets to be sent after their deaths.

Fantastic. At least now I can continue posting hot chocolate high velocity every time my football teams gently caress it up from beyond the grave.

George H.W. Cunt fucked around with this message at 06:34 on Mar 13, 2017

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Fiend
Dec 2, 2001
The first episode of Black Mirror was all about pig-loving.

Mu Zeta
Oct 17, 2002

Me crush ass to dust

David Cameron hosed a pig in college

Auritech
May 27, 2004

Blessed be the tailors
The masks are cut to fit

Blessed be the woodworkers
The crosses and the gallows

Blessed be the forgers of iron
And the spikes and the barbwire

Blessed be the stone cutters
It took a quarry to bury the dreams
I wanna be the guy that sticks a piece of glass to his throat to protest injustices and then gets his own show

root of all eval
Dec 28, 2002

Mostly Human, Dead IRL

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
So this is about the Black Mirror with the "Egg" where the actor who played "Jack Ham" from mad men was a star?

Of loving course it is.

George H.W. Cunt
Oct 6, 2010

My e-personality will be shoved into an e-attic just like in the show

Lord Frankenstyle
Dec 3, 2005

Mmmm,
You smell like Lysol Wipes.

VendaGoat posted:

So this is about the Black Mirror with the "Egg" where the actor who played "Jack Ham" from mad men was a star?

Of loving course it is.

Yup. I set my kid outside and they froze to death.

Black Mirror=Real life: confirmed.

Zzulu
May 15, 2009

(▰˘v˘▰)
So she... made a chat bot with a few default expressions?

lol


*honks lame horn*


LAMEEEEEE

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 11, 2001

Zzulu posted:

So she... made a chat bot with a few default expressions?

lol


*honks lame horn*


LAMEEEEEE

:honk:

Flesh Croissant
Apr 23, 2010

by FactsAreUseless
Hasnt it been real life for a while now since the last british PM admitted to loving a pig?

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




Remember when a dumb offensive TV joke character ran for political office?

guidoanselmi
Feb 6, 2008

I thought my ideas were so clear. I wanted to make an honest post. No lies whatsoever.

the waldo moment, in some ways, is mid-swing

Chrpno
Apr 17, 2006

I was disappointed that the basic point of the second episode is basically "doing a (possibly softcore) porn scene is the worst thing to happen to anyone and destroys them as a person forever". Not very sex positive there, Charlie. It's just a cock in a hole, WTBD

Bright Future
Oct 9, 2007

[let's] fuck that crazy-ass robot

Chrpno posted:

I was disappointed that the basic point of the second episode is basically "doing a (possibly softcore) porn scene is the worst thing to happen to anyone and destroys them as a person forever". Not very sex positive there, Charlie. It's just a cock in a hole, WTBD

Probably worse when it isn't really voluntary imo.

Mebbe

Second Hand Meat Mouth
Sep 11, 2001

Chrpno posted:

I was disappointed that the basic point of the second episode is basically "doing a (possibly softcore) porn scene is the worst thing to happen to anyone and destroys them as a person forever". Not very sex positive there, Charlie. It's just a cock in a hole, WTBD

What episode are you talking about?

E: oh that's what you have a problem with?

Second Hand Meat Mouth fucked around with this message at 08:00 on Mar 13, 2017

Pitdragon
Jan 20, 2004
Just another lurker
uh actually she was pressured into it and even was on drugs when she said yes and then she basically was a sex slave for the entertainment of the masses and clearly was not enjoying herself IDIOT

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005
You folks talking about the whole, exercise bike or become a fat lemon episode?

The one where the woman consented and agreed to, in no uncertain terms, in front of literally everyone that could forcibly witness her, become a porn star?

gary oldmans diary
Sep 26, 2005
ive never been open and sincere with anyone so any chatbot based on me will be as bullshit as i am

bitterandtwisted
Sep 4, 2006




While on a drug called "compliance", yes.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

bitterandtwisted posted:

While on a drug called "compliance", yes.

Hunger games fan spotted.

warez
Mar 13, 2003

HOLA FANTA DONT CHA WANNA?
black mirror really makes you think!

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

Soundboz posted:

black mirror really makes you think!

Sure. If you're a conspiracy theory, non-standard, broke brained person who loves to think that the world is as dark and deeply disturbed as they are.

People who stare into the abyss should really be loving careful, because that god damned dark hole stares back, and it's a harsh mistress.

better to walk with the light. Illumination and the Morning Star for guidance.

drowned in pussy juice
Oct 13, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

VendaGoat posted:

Sure. If you're a conspiracy theory, non-standard, broke brained person who loves to think that the world is as dark and deeply disturbed as they are.

People who stare into the abyss should really be loving careful, because that god damned dark hole stares back, and it's a harsh mistress.

better to walk with the light. Illumination and the Morning Star for guidance.

The abyss is gay

Turdo
Jun 15, 2012

My deathbot will continue lurking long after I am gone.

VendaGoat
Nov 1, 2005

This. :)

Sapphic Socialism
Jan 7, 2017

All your favourite video game characters are gay and trans.
I think Black Mirror has really gone downhill to be honest. I really don't like the fourth season tbh. How is it still going? It's been like 7 weeks.

Sapphic Socialism fucked around with this message at 09:47 on Mar 13, 2017

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

Sapphic Socialism posted:

I think Black Mirror has really gone downhill to be honest. I really don't like the fourth season tbh. How is it still going? It's been like 5 weeks.

It's just a show whose very format causes its quality to fluctuate wildly. The first episode, the pig-loving one, was a stunning work of art, and then the next one with the exercise bike was a cheap, didactic piece of utter dog poo poo. It's gonna be hit and miss, and while the ratio of good to bad episodes has certainly not stayed consistent, I think it's still worth checking out each new one.

Yes, "stunning work of art." It's a straight hour of rich, powerful, posh cocksuckers getting tormented, what more could anyone want?

VendaGoat posted:

Sure. If you're a conspiracy theory, non-standard, broke brained person who loves to think that the world is as dark and deeply disturbed as they are.

People who stare into the abyss should really be loving careful, because that god damned dark hole stares back, and it's a harsh mistress.

better to walk with the light. Illumination and the Morning Star for guidance.
"Y'know, I think not all people suck relentlessly and absolutely"
-a total goddamn moron lol

Sapphic Socialism
Jan 7, 2017

All your favourite video game characters are gay and trans.
it was a trump joke

we're literally living in S4E1 of black mirror right now

Show's better than ever

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich
Welp, I'm dumb

Anyway whose rereg are you?

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
We should pitch new Black Mirror episodes. You take an every day thing and warp it.

Like, what if water was BAD for you?

We can only communicate via texts! THis would be a "silent" episode until the very end where the main girl said "gently caress it" and throws her phone away and the episode wins an award.

All your thoughts are printed.

etc

The Dennis System
Aug 4, 2014

Nothing in Jurassic World is natural, we have always filled gaps in the genome with the DNA of other animals. And if the genetic code was pure, many of them would look quite different. But you didn't ask for reality, you asked for more teeth.

KomodoWagon posted:

a stunning work of art

Yes, "stunning work of art."

It sucked.

KomodoWagon
May 10, 2013

by R. Guyovich

If an aristocrat crying because she thinks she's gonna die for not convincing a politician to gently caress an animal to completion doesn't entertain you, you might just not have a soul.

The Brown Menace
Dec 24, 2010

Now comes in all colors.


Drunken Baker posted:

We should pitch new Black Mirror episodes. You take an every day thing and warp it.

Like, what if water was BAD for you?

We can only communicate via texts! THis would be a "silent" episode until the very end where the main girl said "gently caress it" and throws her phone away and the episode wins an award.

All your thoughts are printed.

etc

what about an episode where an orange idiot uses social media to become the most powerful man on earth

Uncle Salty
Jan 19, 2008
BOYS
Today I had to get up, walk the dog and ride the train to work. BLACK MIRROR!

Drunken Baker
Feb 3, 2015

VODKA STYLE DRINK
Truly we are the blackest of mirrors.

Sapphic Socialism
Jan 7, 2017

All your favourite video game characters are gay and trans.

KomodoWagon posted:

Welp, I'm dumb

Anyway whose rereg are you?

I'm not a rereg

Zorodius
Feb 11, 2007

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SUCK THE SHIT STRAIGHT OUT OF MY OWN ASSHOLE.

BUY IT.

KomodoWagon posted:

If an aristocrat crying because she thinks she's gonna die for not convincing a politician to gently caress an animal to completion doesn't entertain you, you might just not have a soul.

Episode 1 was bad because there was no plot, just a premise. "Does he gently caress the pig? Yes. Roll credits."

staberind
Feb 20, 2008

by Fluffdaddy
Fun Shoe
Mr Brooker also did the first artwork for CEX the comptery exchange shop.

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Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Drunken Baker posted:

We should pitch new Black Mirror episodes. You take an every day thing and warp it.

Like, what if water was BAD for you?

We can only communicate via texts! THis would be a "silent" episode until the very end where the main girl said "gently caress it" and throws her phone away and the episode wins an award.

All your thoughts are printed.

etc

A society where people vote on their interactions with you and if you get enough downvotes you're euthanized.

I've only seen season 1 so forgive me if I'm plagiarizing a real episode.

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