Episode 308 - DAWN OF THE DIGITAL DEAD

Published: Oct. 14, 2023, 8 a.m.

b'With advances in CGI and AI technologies, it is not hard to animate \\u201cStill Life\\u201d making it appear to resurrect from the dead. This new artificial life is like taking a dead form and giving it motion \\u2014 giving it a digital life. Perhaps we can call it the Dawn of the Digital Dead \\u2014 the real \\u201cNature Morte.\\u201d Thanks to Deep Fake technology, movie sets are able to raise deceased actors and have them perform on the screen. Moreover, this creates additional concerns about the ethics of digitally reviving our loved ones from the great beyond. What if the metaverse is merely a stepping stone towards a far darker reality, one in which you are no longer in the metaverse, but the metaverse is in you? Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis talks about NATURE MORTE \\u2013 DAWN OF THE DIGITAL DEAD.

Originally Broadcast On 10/4/2023'