There is no doubt that we are in the age of intelligence, which is turning out to be almost as revolutionary as the internet was in the 90s. However, those who live from the paranormal will also benefit from its benefits, whether they are fans who they look for answers to essential questions of the human being, like people with the desire to deceive and defraud. That is why we are going to talk about the danger that Ghost Boxes with AI pose.
We must clarify, first of all, that we would not like this article to be interpreted as an attack on fans of the paranormal, but that we have decided to write it as an example of what can happen when technology is not used ethically and , therefore, moral with others.
Noises that are not ghosts
One of the most absurd ideas that exist in the group of the paranormal is that of the so-called psychophonies or paraphonies, which consists of saying that there are a series of “intelligences” with the ability to manipulate an audio wave to generate imperceptible sounds. to the ear. Rather, this was the product of the limitations of analog recording systems and with the advent of digitalization of information, it is more difficult to find these auditory anomalies that our brain usually interprets as voices or single words.
The problem with this concept is that many times if we train our brain to hear things that are not, in the end we end up hearing voices, even the cat’s meow. A point at which things can become dangerous. Now, what happens if we train an AI so that it can interpret noise as voices? After all, it is that and the opposite of music that has a mathematical harmony, it may happen that an AI ends up interpreting the noise in the environment as clear voices.
This leads us to the so-called Ghost Box, which currently scans conventional radio footage and jumps to catch snippets that the operator can then believe or make their viewers believe are real responses. The problem is that they never answer the question and they contradict each other. What makes many skeptical of this phenomenon.
The neo-espiritismo that comes with the Ghost box with AI
If we think about it a bit, then the conclusion is that it is possible to improve the current Ghost Boxes with the use of AI targeting audio, something that is easier to do than with an image, since sound is usually represented as a vector in only one dimension and not in two. In Román Paladino that requires less power to process images. Not surprisingly, we already have technologies such as voice dictation, background noise removal or, worse, making a tone of voice sound like another person. And here comes the problem behind all this, the potential appearance of a phenomenon of neo-spiritualism like the one that existed in the 19th century, which takes advantage of people’s lack of technical knowledge and, above all, the longing for their loved ones.
How would it work?
Simply, we need a system that captures the audio in an analog way, but that when doing the digitalization process does not discard the excess, that is, the extra noise and then an AI mechanism is trained to interpret said noise as if it were a spoken voice. And this is something that can be done at a very low cost and if you are skilled enough you can generate different types of voices or even make the system learn to imitate a person’s voice, let’s not forget that this can already be done and the danger of Deep Fakes.
