Be Right Black Mirror’s “Be Right Back”: A Decade of Dystopian Bullshit

Oh, ain’t this a treat? Having to revisit one of Black Mirror’s most excruciatingly melodramatic episodes, “Be Right Back,” which apparently blew your socks off a decade ago. Here, a hapless woman pans through her dead boyfriend’s digital detritus to artificially revive him. Sure, it seemed like a futuristic fever dream back then. Today, however, it’s more like a dull premonition of our society’s manic quest for immortality through technology. 

The Implications of Making Ghosts Dance with Machine Learning

Now, let’s dive into this dystopic dumpster fire’s implications. Assuming you’ve got a tech-lit brain beneath your greasy, nostalgia-drenched hair, you might be able to see how our current obsession with preserving our digital selves is making this episode, much to our collective chagrin, a reality. Giving AI access to our entire life online, it’s only going to be a matter of time before some silicon-brained nincompoop creates a service enabling us to replicate people digitally. As if we don’t already have enough problems with fake news, catfishing, and cyberbullying, now we gotta worry about virtual clones of dead dudes messing up our stuff.

A Hot Take on This Cold, Gloomy Future

So, in summary, buckle up for a future where you can’t even trust your own digital clone. Presumably, “Be Right Back” gave you a kick with its tech-driven existential crisis. But what it really shows is humanity’s penchant for self-destruction in the search for digital afterlife. In fact, if your dearly departed ex’s bot starts sliding into your DMs in the future, remember – you asked for this dystopian disaster by romanticizing this garbage heap of an episode. Heaven help us if the rest of Black Mirror’s bleak techno-nightmares become as eerily prescient. God knows, “The Entire History of You” is disturbing enough already.

Original article:https://venturebeat.com/ai/you-can-now-make-an-ai-clone-of-yourself-or-anyone-else-living-or-dead-with-delphi/