Ritchin opens up this chapter by recounting an experience he had at a computer graphics conference in Las Vegas where people could hold conversations with a fictional, virtual woman. He also mentions the “Turing Test” which is a contest put on by software companies to see who can develop artificial intelligence capable the most realistic human conversation. I find all this really interesting because I can’t help but notice that we are really beginning to blend reality and the digital world. Entire worlds are created for movies that are now getting hard to distinguish from real environments. Video games are becoming so realistic that they look like the movies! The only reason you can tell that they are fiction is because you know that nothing in our reality exists as you are viewing it there on the screen. It also makes me very curious to know where photography is now going with this. I’ve heard talk of 3D cameras in the make. Who knows, maybe one day the newspapers will resemble those in the wizarding world of Harry Potter. Ritchin expands his ideas with the possibility of having a conversation with a dead relative. That to me opened of the dangers of the advances of technology. If you could some how capture the essence of a deceased family member, why stop there? At that point anyone could be copied, willingly or not, which could lead to a lot of trouble.
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