The future is getting scary, weird, and closer to scenarios once only presented to us in science fiction which are now becoming a part of our everyday lives. This is evident again with news this week from IGN who reported on a new artificial intelligence computer program that can write and create ‘movies’ by itself.
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) study recently pitted two A.I. systems against each other, with one making a short movie and the other being tasked to find the machine-made video out of group made by real people when presented with the results. The short videos made by the A.I. were only one and-a-half seconds long with a 64×64 pixel resolution and they were able to pass the opposing A.I. as realistically-created content. The same videos were also able to fool 20% of a human sample of workers at Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
The short video can not create episodes of TV and movies but this tech can be applied to future initiatives with self-driving cars and other A.I. driven ventures. Still imagine what it would be like if a computer program was writing one of your favorite shows and you never even knew it wasn’t made by a real person? It is not guaranteed that this tech will grow out of control and replace all the talented creators behind the shows we love, it’s just uncomfortable to think it’s remotely possible.
If you were wondering, yes this is scary. Even computer genius and philanthropist Bill Gates has stated his fear of how the future of A.I. if left unchecked, could be dangerous for us humanity. It’s unsettling that highly intelligent person like Gates also thinks that something like ‘the Terminator’ movies could become a reality.
Read the entire article from Scientific American,
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