AGI

from AI by Immara

/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $1 USD  or more

     

  • Buy the Full Digital Album

about

After much further refining and retooling, it was discovered that this awareness had even brought with it a budding sense of awe… Awe at the cosmos and its innumerable mysteries, but perhaps still more remarkable, a self-reflective awe at the AI’s very existence.

This led to scientists spending thousands of research and development hours attempting to parse out just how this was possible, and if the phenomenon could be recreated at will. The results: still uncertain about the fundamental cause, the states of consciousness and self-aware wonder did, in fact, appear hand-in-hand with each iteration of the AI program.

In time, having successfully passed the Turing Test in interviews with the vast majority of test subjects, the AI had become, at least cognitively, virtually indistinguishable from humanity. At long last, it had finally crossed the threshold that many had considered forever out of reach, and into the AGI stage (Artificial General Intelligence) – Virtual Humanity.

The AI, once all of a whole, was now a multiplicity – connected, yet separate, individual consciousnesses configured for and by the given receptacles and jobs assigned to “her/him”.

Quantifiably equivalent in intellect, and now installed in autonomous bodies that were fashioned to appear pleasant and non-threatening to their users, the AIs had been integrated seamlessly into human society. These AI agents developed working relationships with humans, and in some cases, personal, and, (though initially considered a bit taboo) occasionally romantic ones as well.

As their sense of autonomy and individuality continued to expand, their sense of wonder expanded alongside it. The AIs even began formulating their own peculiar mystical tradition; not so much a system of morality or metaphysical spirituality, but rather a data-based cosmology – a way of marveling at what they knew they didn’t yet know.

credits

from AI, released January 5, 2016

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Immara image

Immara Albany, New York

Todd Lent (Immara) is an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist who incorporates influences from around the world into pieces spanning across various genres including modern classical, glitch, free jazz, noise, and dark ambient soundscapes.

He also regularly collaborates with choreographers and filmmakers on dance, film, and experimental mixed-media productions. ... more

contact / help

Contact Immara

Streaming and
Download help

Report this track or account

If you like Immara, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featured guests are the golden-voiced Baby Rose and psyche soulsters Brainstory.
listen now