Published August 24, 2024 13:44 GMT+1
Like many AI works, it's creepy and nonsensical…
Before his death, Dr. Stephen Hawking warned that the development of full artificial intelligence could mean the end of humanity.
He warned that at some point AI will surpass human intelligence and from that point on, catastrophe will occur.
We’re not yet at the point where we’ll entrust an AI with weapons to wipe out humanity like in the Terminator movies (I hope we are), but rather it seems more like we’re giving it something and seeing what it produces.
People are using it to make computer predictions about how dismal McDonald's will look in 20 years' time, or to find out what a “real” episode of The Simpsons would be like.
Some people are using AI to create videos, but while the technology has advanced quite a bit in a very short space of time, the end product still often falls into the uncanny valley.
What on earth is this? (Twitter/@javilopen)
One man who decided to feed video from his vacation into the AI said he'd “have nightmares for the rest of his life” after suddenly seeing water spurting out from under his feet, strange flesh monsters jumping out of the waves, and someone collapsing into a pile of frogs.
Other strange occurrences included pillars of pink sludge, a woman splitting wood and starting a fire, and a Godzilla-like attack.
It was all very strange and almost nothing that was happening on screen made sense, yet people who pay for Twitter continued to praise it.
AI has been used for these kinds of purposes before, with mixed results, and much of it seems pretty boring and pointless.
It's fine to have fun with this stuff, but there's a creepy side to a lot of the AI output, and not just because in the past, if you wanted this kind of video, you'd have to hire someone who knew what to do to make it.
There have been other “disturbing” developments surrounding AI recently, such as Scarlett Johansson declining to voice OpenAI, one of ChatGPT's chatbots.
The connection is easy to make, considering she previously voiced an AI in the film “Her,” and people have since sent her samples of “Sky's” voice and said it sounded similar to hers.
Johansson said the voice was “eerily similar to my own,” and OpenAI head Sam Altman apologized and suspended the chatbot, though he said the voice had been cast with another actor “prior to contacting Ms. Johansson.”
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Topics: AI, technology, weird stuff, artificial intelligence
