Before his death, Stephen Hawking cautioned that the advancement of fully developed artificial intelligence could potentially mark the end of humanity.
He warned that AI could eventually exceed human intelligence, leading to a catastrophic outcome from that point onward.
We’re (hopefully) not at the stage seen in the Terminator movies, where AI takes control of weapons and tries to eliminate humanity. Instead, we’re currently feeding AI data and observing the results it produces.
People have been using AI to explore things like how a McDonald’s might look 20 years from now or what a ‘real life’ episode of The Simpsons might look like.
Others have been creating videos with AI, and the technology has advanced rapidly in a short period. However, the end result often still falls into the uncanny valley, where it feels eerily off.
One man who processed his holiday video through AI remarked that he was “pretty sure I’ll have nightmares for life” after witnessing bizarre results: jets of water sprouting from his feet, a strange flesh monster emerging from the waves, and someone collapsing into a pile of frogs.
Other strange occurrences included a column of pink sludge, a woman opening a tree that then burst into flames, and what appeared to be a Godzilla-like attack.
Everything was very bizarre and made little sense on screen, yet that didn’t stop a stream of people who paid for Twitter from singing its praises.
AI has been used for similar projects before, with mixed results. Much of it tends to look pretty nonsensical and low-quality.
Enjoy it if you like, but much of the AI output can be quite creepy. It’s not just because, in the past, creating such videos would have required hiring a skilled professional.
The connection is clear, considering she once voiced an AI character in the movie Her. However, people began sending her samples of the ‘Sky’ voice, claiming it sounded like her, which likely contributed to her decision.
Johansson described the voice as “so eerily similar to mine,” and although OpenAI’s Sam Altman stated that the voice was cast with another actor “before any outreach to Ms. Johansson,” he apologized and decided to pause the chatbot.
