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A brave new world.

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A brave new world.  The post on Nietzsche got me thinking about a lot of things. Namely about Artificial Intelligence, 1984 by Orwell and Brave New World by Huxley. Oh, we are heading towards an interesting period in mankind. You realize Artificial Intelligence could be our last invention? It’s growing at a rapid pace. Some of the advancements made are groundbreaking. Like prosthetic limbs, organs and eyes – that’s a thing now, we can now be cyborgs and it’s completely safe and regulated in other parts of the world. There’s this website called “Lyrebird” that can copy your voice. All it requires is that you say a couple of words on the mic and it will decode your voice and just like that you can impersonate anyone in the world. No kidding, your exact voice and speech pattern. It will even sound out the words you didn’t record in a way that you would utter them. It’s incredible! Committing Identity theft is now as effortless as breathing. It’s not just that by 2030 self-...