To be terrified by the rapid progression of Artificial Intelligence?

[FlyRobinFly]

These children in the 2 attached photos are not real, an AI was asked to generate an image of what Lisa and Maggie Simpson would have looked like had The Simpson’s been a live action 90s sitcom rather than a cartoon. Those children do not exist, an AI has generated those faces within a few seconds based on a prompt of a few words. The quality of the image is even just the right amount of distorted to look like the images have come from a 90s live action sitcom. It seems so real…and yet it’s not. Like a window into an alternate dimension or something.

I find it incredibly unsettling.

No, we aren't, speaking as someone who has a masters in data science and works in the field. Most people do not understand what AI actually is compared to machine learning.

We are miles away from anything that can be described as actual intelligence.

Well, others in the field would disagree with you. Clearly.

A friend of mine who is a university lecturer did this too - and it even came up with decent feedback on the assignment. Scary.

I watched this a while ago and found it very interesting wrt AI in the future.

I was listening to a podcast the other day discussing some of the implications of the likes of ChatGPT. The suggestion was that teachers and lecturers would need to adapt - don't just set the students to write an essay on a subject, maybe get them to produce one by whatever means and then have to critique it.

Or just go back to doing more assessments under exam conditions maybe... if a student in the essay-writing type of field hasn't learned their craft then they'll be caught out.

Let's face it. Like all things it will be used for ill. That's the frightening thing.

@pompomdaisy If it's the same group I'm in, I thought the most recent AI post with all the blues and greens was amazing when I first saw it, but I when I then clicked on each individual image, I didn't feel any emotional response at all (positive or negative) and it was very strange. It's definitely the lack of human touches. If we are in the same group, mine is the house with the red carpet in the hallway and the pink kitchen :)