How terrible is artificial intelligence? Look at this photo!

Allen, since the morning topic on March 5th, Elon Musk, an American billionaire and Silicon Valley hero, has repeatedly warned about artificial intelligence technology, thinking that if strict boundaries are not set before this technology is fully mature, it will eventually lead to a devastating disaster for mankind. Therefore, Stephen Hawking, a famous theoretical physicist, also expressed concern about this technology in his last book, arguing that artificial intelligence technology will eventually be owned by the rich, thus becoming a special weapon for them to control the poor.

For ordinary people, how can we feel the terrible magic of this technology? Recently, the portrait photos generated by artificial intelligence (AI) technology, which is widely circulated on foreign networks, can be said to give ordinary people a good education. For example, the following two photos, one is a real photo and the other is a photo generated by artificial intelligence technology, look lifelike, but this person does not exist at all. Can you tell which is a real person and which is a dummy?

The photo above comes from a website called ThisPersonDoesNotExist. At the beginning of this month, as soon as this website was launched, netizens were shocked, because people couldn't believe that these photos, which looked no different from real people, were actually generated by computers. A similar website was recently launched. The website named WhichFaceIsReal randomly generates two photos, one of which is a real person and the other is an AI-generated dummy. You can test whether you can tell them apart like a multiple-choice question.

This website was founded by two scholars, Javan West and Karl Bogestrom of the University of Washington. The two scholars hope to use this popular way to remind the public of the potential terrible magic of artificial intelligence technology, because they may undermine the credibility of human evidence. Bogestrom said, "The most dangerous thing is that AI technology has emerged, but people don't realize it."

Of course, just generating a few photos of dummies doesn't seem to worry everyone, but if one day you find yourself, who was originally five big and three thick, dancing ballet in the video that only professional actors can dance, will you be afraid? In fact, this technology has been realized. AI can not only generate virtual photos, but also modify the characters in the video and let them do whatever they want. This technology is very different from the way Hollywood sci-fi movie scenes are made.

Artificial intelligence has obviously become a revolutionary technology, and there is a lot of debate in the scientific community at present. Elon musk, a hero in Silicon Valley, once quoted a sentence from mary shelley's science fiction Frankenstein in his tweet: "You created me, but now I am your master! Take orders! " Musk expressed his concern about artificial intelligence technology. In 20 17, the European union also submitted a bill calling for legislative distinction between "robots" and natural persons, and calling for moral and legal restrictions on "robots". As early as 194 1, American science fiction writer isaac asimov also put forward the famous "three laws of robots" in his science fiction "Dance", that is, the law of no harm: robots must not harm human beings, nor can they harm human beings because of inaction; Obedience law: robots must obey human orders, but they must not violate the first law; Law of self-protection: robots must protect themselves, but they must not violate the first and second laws.

Anyway, we happen to meet an old classmate who we haven't seen for years in the street in the future. You may have to be careful: it may not be a real old classmate, although he knows your smelly things better than a real old classmate.