Maybe your days are numbered, Instagram? We live in some pretty amazing times. What I will refer to generally as “IA” can do more things than ever, and more realistically - generate text, generate photos, edit your photos. And this particularly amusing (and scary) case of the blond gal who resembles an Indian man. Now some people, especially the younger generations, stare in disbelief as us older folks are confused by what is real and what is IA-generated on the internet. Fair enough, I guess. But at the rate technology is evolving, it won’t be long until those IA generated photos and videos are so realistic that it is no longer possible to determine the difference between the real ones, and the fake ones. Which leads to an interesting question, one posed by philosophers and more intelligent people before me: What is “real”? How do you determine what is real? Maybe our entire existence is just an IA simulation spanning what we would call thousands (or millions) of years. Back in the…
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