There are AI dating apps (yes, you date an AI partner). Others are uploading voicemails from loved ones who have died so they can continue to interact with them by talking to an AI replica of a dead parent or child. People using AI therapists instead of humans. Don’t believe me? Go and listen to “Not” Johnny Cash singing “Barbie Girl,” Freddie Mercury intoning “Thriller,” or Frank Sinatra bellowing “Livin’ on a Prayer” to see just how terrifying all of this is. There’s AI that can re-create music by your favorite musician. There’s voice AI software that can take just a few seconds of anyone’s voice and completely re-create an almost indistinguishable replica of them saying something new. We’ve got customizable porn, where you can pick a woman’s breast size or sexual position in any setting-including with you. Platforms that can construct haikus or help finish a novel or write a screenplay. LLMs can write stories in the style of Ernest Hemingway or Bugs Bunny or the King James Bible while you’re drunk with peanut butter stuck in your mouth. “We’re creating conscious machines.”Īlready, we’ve seen creative AIs that can paint and draw in any style imaginable in mere seconds. “We’re creating God,” one AI engineer working on large language models (LLMs) recently told me. We don’t have a say over whether it should even exist in the first place. We don’t have a say in the ethics behind their invention. And whether we understand what it is they are doing or not, we are largely left to the whims of their creation. Thinking machines that are being built in a 50-square-mile speck of dirt we call Silicon Valley by a few hundred men (and a handful of women) who write in a language only they and computers can speak. Something that will go to war for us-and likely against us. Machines that, some estimate, could take over up to 30 percent of all jobs within the next decade, from stock traders to truck drivers to accountants and telemarketers, lawyers, bookkeepers, and all things creative: actors, writers, musicians, painters. Machines that will potentially answer all of our unanswerable questions: Are we alone in the universe? What is consciousness? Why are we here? Thinking machines that could cure cancer and allow us to live until we’re 150 years old. That could solve all of the world’s problems or destroy every single human on the planet in the snap of a finger-or both. This all stems from an idea conceptualized in the 1940s and finally figured out a few years ago.
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