{"id":13137,"date":"2024-04-05T22:00:22","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T22:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13137"},"modified":"2024-04-20T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T22:04:29","slug":"transformer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/04\/05\/transformer\/","title":{"rendered":"Transformer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/culture\/2024-04-05\/laurie-anderson-is-obsessed-with-resuscitating-husband-lou-reed-with-ai.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from EL PA\u00cdS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Laurie Anderson is obsessed with resuscitating husband, Lou Reed, with AI<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>The avant-garde artist frequently converses with a chatbot designed to emulate the former Velvet Underground frontman<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/author\/marita-alonso-romero\/#?rel=author_top\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MARITA ALONSO<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed (1975) (Full Album)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PB1cEyy0fKs?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What is really curious, as well as disturbing, about the dystopian series\u00a0<em>Black Mirror<\/em>\u00a0is that technology is advancing at such a pace that it is increasingly difficult for any futuristic plot to surprise us. It has been a decade since the premiere of the first episode of its second season,\u00a0<em>Be Right Back,<\/em>\u00a0in which a woman\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/economy-and-business\/2021-09-13\/the-economics-of-artificial-intelligence.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">uses artificial intelligence<\/a>\u00a0to replace her boyfriend after losing him in an accident. Ten years on, there are actually companies that offer a service known as \u2018mourning technology\u2019 or \u2018digital necromancy\u2019 which promises to keep the memories of their clients\u2019 loved ones alive through AI.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are AI applications such as HearAfter, which preserve the user\u2019s memories via interviews on their life so that their loved ones can posthumously listen to their stories and chat with their virtual self. Even in more mainstream pop culture, we have seen cases like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/culture\/2022-10-31\/the-rise-and-fall-of-kanye-west.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kanye West\u2019s<\/a>\u00a040th birthday gift to his then-wife Kim Kardashian of a hologram of her late father, the well-known lawyer, Robert Kardashian, in just one more example of how technology tries controversially to assuage grief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the musician, artist and thinker, Laurie Anderson, hasn\u2019t needed to turn to Netflix, holograms or apps to do this for her partner,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/culture\/2023-03-08\/ignacio-julia-the-only-journalist-to-make-lou-reed-smile.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lou Reed, who passed away in 2013.<\/a>\u00a0While many prefer to exercise this level of nostalgia in secret, Anderson has done so in public with\u00a0<em>I\u2019ll Be Your Mirror<\/em>, an exhibition, which shares its name with a song by The Velvet Underground,\u00a0and which makes use of AI to invite reflection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/english.elpais.com\/culture\/2024-04-05\/laurie-anderson-is-obsessed-with-resuscitating-husband-lou-reed-with-ai.html\">click to continue reading at EL PA\u00cdS<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from EL PA\u00cdS Laurie Anderson is obsessed with resuscitating husband, Lou Reed, with AI The avant-garde artist frequently converses with a chatbot designed to emulate the former Velvet Underground frontman by MARITA ALONSO What is really curious, as well as disturbing, about the dystopian series\u00a0Black Mirror\u00a0is that technology is advancing at such a pace that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}