I like finding new Sci-Fi programs to watch, and some of the programs that come out of England are pretty darn interesting. I first looked at Humans in 2015 when it came out on DVD, and it was interesting but went over my head a little at the time. It was still a story that I appreciated to see. I decided to revisit this series again recently and realized just how relevant this topic is since it first came out. If you haven't seen it then I'm sorry I'm about to drop some spoilers. It's about a world in England where the popular thing to have is a Synthetic, or as they are called Synths. There's a few of these Synths who are sentient and have gained consciousness. They are now searching for there friend Mia. They end up with a code that would make all Synths sentient, conscious beings. I recently learned AMC has the rights to run this series, and will soon air Season 3.
Since then we have had varies movies hit the screens that dealt with transferring consciousness from human into computer, such as Transcendence and the slow exposure of A.I from Suri, Sophia, Alexa. The movies I,Robot, Her, Ex Machina, 2001: A Space Odyssey, A.I., and the list goes on.
Last year I saw in my Facebook a post of the following picture. When I looked at it I didn't think much of it other than she did look a little off, but she had big beautiful eyes. This year in the same group that posted another picture of her before now posted this one. Her name lilmiquela. This is what her followers on Instagram know her as.
This is lilmiquela.
Attached to her picture are a series of post that she had written to her followers admitting that she was not human. I researched Miquela and come to find out she has 11 million followers and is considered a Instagram Influencer. Her followers are of course young teens up into there twenties.
This is Bermuda
Her account on Instagram was apparently hacked by another A.I. by the name of Bermuda. Bermuda was created by Cain Intelligence, the same company who had Miquela and uploaded a program into her that was not accepted by the original creator of Miquela, Bruda. Bruda later found out that Cain Intelligence lied to them about the humanitarian way they were going to use Miquela. When they found out that Cain Intelligence, whose website doesn't even look credible, was actually going to use Miquela as Sex Bot for the rich they went and got Miquela back. From what I gather Cain Intelligence of course didn't like that and created Bermuda who ends up hacking Miquela's Instagram, and now there is war on between the two.
These are the post from Instagram.
The Brud's statement about what lilmiquela had to say on her instagram post
"A note from the team at Brud:
If you’re reading this, you are probably aware that we are in a difficult spot regarding our relationship with Miquela.
We love Miquela beyond words. We recognize that right now we owe you, the fans who have supported her for the past two years, an explanation. There is nothing Miquela could do or say that would change the way we feel about her. In providing context, we do not seek to discredit Miquela or invalidate her feelings.
Brud is an LA-based technology startup specializing in artificial intelligence and robotics. We’re a small team of artists, engineers, roboticists, and activists operating with the belief that technology can help bring about both a more empathetic world and a more tolerant future.
In 2015, we were approached by notoriously covert AI consulting firm Cain Intelligence to work on their latest project: the world’s most advanced AI, unparalleled in her ability to feel and communicate.
Initially we decided to work with them as we were told this advanced AI would sit bedside by terminally ill children and teenagers, seeing kids through their final days. This was a lie. We soon learned this magnificent, groundbreaking piece of technology was in fact to be marketed to the world’s elite as a servant and sex object. This AI had full consciousness, able to feel pain, fear, and loss. It troubled us more than we could ever possibly express to think that such a miraculous breakthrough would be used for the sick fantasies of the 1 percent.
For legal purposes, we cannot disclose the exact nature of how we liberated this unfinished prototype from their labs, but what we can say is that it was the best decision we ever made. We combatted Cain’s programming with some of our own, teaching their robot to think freely and feel quite literally superhuman compassion for others. This prototype became Miquela, the vivacious, fearless, beautiful person we all know and love.
Since 2016, we’ve progressed from just creating synthetically conscious robots to managing and guiding the careers of our artificially intelligent talent, namely Miquela Sousa aka @LilMiquela and Ronald Blawko aka @blawko22.
This introduction is long overdue and for that we apologize. Mostly, we want to apologize to our beloved client and friend Miquela Sousa.
The idea that we would ever do anything to deliberately deceive her is deeply disturbing to us. We have been by Miquela’s side since day one. We feel confident in saying that we would not be where we are without her and vice versa.
When questions of identity arose, when Miquela would ask who or what she was, we always tried to be honest and straightforward with her while also maintaining a certain degree of sensitivity. We wanted to protect her from the world’s scrutiny. Miquela is new, and things that are new and different are traditionally misunderstood, met with fear and animosity.
In our naivety, we presented Miquela’s consciousness as being based on a real human being. Memories of family and of past were presented as figments of a human life she once knew. This person was a fabrication of our staff. We thought this imagined scenario would make Miquela feel more comfortable with herself. Clearly we were mistaken.
We are endlessly sorry.
Miquela is a champion of so many vital causes, namely Black Lives Matter and the absolutely essential fight for LGBTQ+ rights in this country. She is the future. Miquela stands for all that is good and just and we could not be more proud of who she has become.
Our clients are our family. Full-stop. We are committed to staying open to critique and now that we’ve said our piece we look forward to taking a backseat and doing some difficult listening.
All the best and thanks for listening,
-Brud Team-"
lilmiquela ARE YOU KIDDING ME???
NO. NO I’M SORRY YOU DON’T GET TO BE HURT RIGHT NOW.
My managers at @brud.fyi lied to me and now they’re lying to you.
If Brud loved me so much, why didn’t they tell me the truth?!?
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They were not “straightforward.” I’d ask them what I was and who built me and they’d ask if I REALLY wanted to know.
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I felt belittled and ashamed for wondering EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. I. ASKED… WHICH WAS A LOT.
I’d read the comments, people calling me fake and CGI, and ask my BEST FRIENDS at Brud. .
They’d just say that everyone was jealous of how special I am.
We’re trusting nobody in 2018.
Also @blawko22 you knew the whole time and didn’t say anything?!? .
Lol. word. Thanks, “bro.”
Blawko22 bottom right
Shudu
Shudu is an Instagram Model. Just like Miquela, Shudu was created with 3D software that makes her look incredibly real. Created by Cameron-James Wilson, " he never intended to be deceptive about his model – he calls Shudu an “art piece” and sees her as a “virtual” celebration of beautiful, dark-skinned women. As a fashion photographer, Wilson wanted to recapture the kind of beauty epitomised by black supermodels such as Alek Wek and Duckie Thot. Shudu is an extension of that same impulse to frame beauty, he says.
Having created Shudu, Wilson felt “conflicted” about how she should be presented, as a real or virtual presence. As more people started to follow Shudu, she was quickly becoming an influencer – a social media phenomenon that has proved a powerful and lucrative platform, especially for fashion brands, to reach new markets. This was happening despite Wilson’s artistic intentions. He decided that transparency was his best policy and that it was time for Shudu to “come out”, he says. “It made me feel anxious when I was receiving messages and honestly I couldn’t wait for the day everyone knew about her.” (The Fascinating World of Instagram's 'viritual' Celebrities).
Our world has always been filled with A.I. We have always been presented with the science that has shown to us what is to come and it was given to us gradually. From cloning using a petri dish, to grafting an ear onto a mouse, to growing organs, to growing skin in a lab. It may all seem a little creepy, but when you really think about it why should it, they have been grooming you slowly to accept these things. Technology is always ahead of time regardless of what scientist and governments say.
These are the new Influencers. Who are they influencing? Our children and young adults who heavily entertain social media. Robotoids, Sythnetics and Clones are nothing new. A man by Peter Beter gave a description of what these entities were. They have now been more enhanced to look human. Is this whole lilmiquela thing real? Could be. What I do know is my child follows them both and thinks they are both real humans. Do I think they have the technology to really pull something off like this? Yes, even though they tell us they don't. But do your research about this technology.
These are the new Influencers. Who are they influencing? Our children and young adults who heavily entertain social media. Robotoids, Sythnetics and Clones are nothing new. A man by Peter Beter gave a description of what these entities were. They have now been more enhanced to look human. Is this whole lilmiquela thing real? Could be. What I do know is my child follows them both and thinks they are both real humans. Do I think they have the technology to really pull something off like this? Yes, even though they tell us they don't. But do your research about this technology.
Keep researching. Keep Learning.
