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CG Idols - Human Not Required

Posted by michael on from the worshipping-rendered-images dept.

greymond sent in a blurb about computer-generated celebrities in Japan. I'm sure a fair number of you have read Idoru... The Final Fantasy movie didn't do well, but I think it's safe to predict that eventually, computer-generated celebrities will be as numerous as live ones. There are so many advantages for the purveyors of pop culture, ranging from "never gets arrested for drunk driving" to "never demands salary increases", that I think it's inevitable.

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  1. Re:How about Max Headroom? by tswinzig · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Max Headroom doesn't count, since he was played by the actor Matt Frewer.

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    "And like that ... he's gone."
  2. CG Idols Will Have AI Minds by Mentifex · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Natura non facit saltum is the famous quotation: Nature does not make a leap -- as she lets the Japanese Idoru evolve from a soulless computer generated celebraty to a full artificial mind.

    It would be too jarring to see our world suddenly co-populated with superintelligent CG Idoru phenotypes. Therefore the Technological Singularity comes about only gradually, lulling us into feeble acceptance of ultimately colossal changes.

    Even here on SlashDot there is backslash and recalcitrance against an AI emergence so world-changing and so iconoclastic that our very theological foundations of existence will be shaken and reevaluated. As usual, look to Japan and the CG Idoru celebrities for the first steps of mass innovation.