I've asked before what can AI do; perhaps an easier question
is what can AI not do? I've just seen
something that stunned me. An AI was given a very simple instruction: to remake
Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001- A Space
Odyssey in the style of Fritz Lang. Fritz Lang was an Austrian filmmaker
who became one of the most celebrated creators in the earliest period of
cinema, when films were almost all monochrome and silent. They usually had
scores, but these were often performed by musicians live in the auditorium. His
futuristic steampunk sci-fi classics include Metropolis and Woman in the
Moon. The result of the AI instruction is this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4pdiSPxcc.
It is amusing, but also chilling. The method is very simple. Just show the AI
all of Lang's early filmography and then show it 2001. Of course a human could do this; in fact such anachronisms
are the basis of a lot of comedy, but I bet the AI made its own remake far quicker.
It has also done Blade Runner, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7xWmgUdfOg,
and Casablanca
in the style of Denis Villeneuve, see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RxhyqYUjOE.
What else? I've already covered AI art in the background links. What about
music? This is the country singer Johnny Cash: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAFdzBTe2lg...
only it's not. It's an AI performing the Eurodance track Barbie Girl by Aqua with Johnny's sound and style. What about
books? Could AI write a new edition of Roswell
Rising in the style of William Shakespeare? Yes, easily. I can't imagine
what that would be like! Anything humans can do, AI can do better. What job
will not be forfeit in the AI future? And if you think "It's alright, we'll
still need people to program the computers." No, they can program
themselves. This is why AI has boomed in sophistication in just the last couple
of years. They are writing their own upgrades; and they can do it a thousand
times faster than any human coder. What's more, there's no way the government
will not find a way to weaponize this technology against us, like they do
everything else. I'm not sure what we can do about this. I think this is one of
those wait-and-trust issues. This technology could be used to do some really
good things as well. For example, Doctor
Who fans have spent years looking for the missing episodes of the show. In
the early years, the BBC used to delete recordings from its archive to save
money or space, or because of broadcasting rights. Fans have scoured the world
to locate the missing episodes and have found a few of them, but it looks like
some of them are lost forever because no recording at all survives. An AI could
recreate them. You could enter the script and production design together with
surviving recordings to compare them with and hey presto! Out would come a very
accurate reconstruction, even if it's not an exact facsimile. The AI William
Hartnell would be indistinguishable from the real First Doctor.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/03/should-we-welcome-our-ai-overlords.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/12/third-rail-radio-programme-131.html.
See here for background: https://hpanwo-tv.blogspot.com/2023/03/should-we-welcome-our-ai-overlords.html.
And: https://hpanwo-radio.blogspot.com/2022/12/third-rail-radio-programme-131.html.