Artificial Intelligence reviving dead authors
I was in a bar with a friend last night, talking about Michael Crichton and his books. He’s the man behind Jurassic Park and ER among many others. The original Westworld movie included.
My friend, Deni, was explaining me that all of his sci-fi books are evolving around different scientific theories and how fascinating that was. How every time she was at the book store, she would buy his latest novel and read it in one breath.
Sadly, Crichton died in 2008. And though great people live through their legacy, we’d often wish for more. Who knows what else their mind could have come up with?
This is where AI could step up and carry on the legacy
What if we have a Machine Learning analysis on Michael Crichton’s books, so that a computer learns about his writing style and way of thinking. What if we give the computer new ideas to elaborate on, using that model? What if we can import an author’s mind in a computer, using his own notes, his own expressed personality?
What would Aristotle think about self driving cars? What would Napoleon say about nuclear weapon? What would Shakespeare write about modern moral. What would Steve Jobs think about the latest Apple product? Ok, that was an easy one… but you got the point.
Such artificial personalities will only posses a fraction of the real person's mind or spirit. But it’s a way to apply their way of thinking when they are no longer here to do it themselves.
Who knows what they gotta say?
