There have recently been incredible advances made in the creation of AI functions that can emulate many aspects of humanity. So incredible that the Turing Test used as a sort of de facto qualitative assessment has been claimed to be passed with flying colors without any great degree of resistance to the claims. AI art has come incredibly far in the last year but wouldn't quite pass that sort of test for me at the moment but I would not be surprised for it to reach that point anytime in the near future.
One of the interesting features of the process of creating these AI systems is the need to train the system on data it is intended to emulate. And, as I am an aging man still wanting to start a family of my own someday, I do recognize the need for me to find a woman quite a bit younger than me if she is expected to be able to still bear children naturally. When looking at the logically expected end-of-life scenarios one in my position could encounter you tend to realize that my wife and family will likely face a good number of years without me before they pass along to the next life themselves. It could be decades, even. And in many respects it would be largely because I was responsible for getting things started so late in my own life. What a bummer... but could I possibly do something to ease the pain of my loss? This is where the idea of seeing if an AI version of me could do some of my work while I am gone. Obviously it could never truly replace me but couldn't it do something to help? And training it on as much of the "me" data I could possibly train it on would seem to be ideal.
Am I a madman for thinking about all this stuff? Maybe. But I also don't mind a decent motivating reason to get back to my creative writing habits here in the old blog. It has been too long since I've done this with any regularity. Hopefully I can prioritize it better going forward!
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