What would a collage made by an artificial intelligence look like? Could a machine create art? There are unexpected and surprising outcomes of software programming… In this case, I bumped into YouTube trying to capture Swedish voice-overs during a film about J. G. Ballard.
What happened was that I’ve incidentally turned the platform’s auto-generated subtitles while watching a 1986 documentary with J. G. Ballard, where Swedish-Portuguese director Solveig Nordlund interviews the author (video below).
What follows is a transcription of the resulting automatic translation of all the bits narrated in Swedish.
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Far from fascinating, but there is always something Ballardian about these things. Expressions such as “works it open Klingon, yen of the cervical” or “meaty traffic winglet” make it worth the effort.
Not as interesting as someone unboxing their new toaster, of course. Enough about YouTube’s poetic future, anyway.
Future Now (1986)
More than a conversation with the author, it’s a good opportunity to get acquainted with Ballard’s life and views on future social ramifications, as well as his vision of our tech-dependent future.