Particle Ion Interview, AI Art Just the Start, AoT#386

Particle Ion was Aaron’s collaborator on the TransAlchemy blog/website. It has been over a decade since then, but some of the topics discussed on TA are only just now becoming big news stories.  Topics include: TransAlchemy, making videos, Singularity Summit 2009, Ai art, Midjourney, intellectual property, ChatGPT, LLMs, writer’s strike, actors, deep fakes, Ai generated movies, music, impossible to trust imagery now, internet, metaverse, VR headsets, virtual reality, transhumanism, social media, Twitter, Elon Musk, AGI vs narrow Ai, machine learning, intelligence, consciousness, scientific method, software, AI writing code, hacking, intangibles, occult side of tech, existential threat

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