Man sends his vacation video to AI and experiences “a nightmare of a lifetime”

Before his death, Stephen Hawking warned that “the development of complete artificial intelligence could mean the end of humanity.”

He warned that AI would eventually surpass human intelligence and that from that point on, disaster would loom.

We are (hopefully) not yet at the point Terminator Movies where we give an AI control of the weapons and it tries to wipe us all out; instead we seem to feed it things and wait to see what it spits out.

People have used it to see how depressing McDonald's will look in 20 years according to a computer and what a “real” episode of The Simpsons would look like.

Others have created videos using AI and the technology has made pretty big advances in a very short amount of time, but the end product is still something that often falls into the uncanny valley.

What the hell is this thing? (Twitter/@javilopen)

A man who decided to run his vacation video through an artificial intelligence said he was “pretty sure he's going to have nightmares for the rest of his life” when suddenly jets of water shot out of his feet, some kind of strange flesh monster burst out of the waves and someone collapsed in a pile of frogs.

Other strange things that happened included a pillar of pink mud, a woman slashing a tree that then caught fire, and some sort of Godzilla attack.

The whole thing was very strange and what was happening on the screen didn't make any sense. However, that didn't stop a number of Twitter contributors from singing the praises of the feature.

AI has been used for this kind of thing before with mixed results, and a lot of it looks pretty silly and nonsensical.

Enjoy this stuff if you want, but there's something scary about so much AI output, and not just because you used to have to hire someone who knew what they were doing to create this kind of video.

There have been other “disturbing” developments in AI recently, including Scarlett Johansson refusing to be the voice of OpenAI, one of ChatGPT’s chatbots.

The connection is not difficult to see, as she once played an AI voice for the film Herbut people then sent her samples of the “Sky” voice and said that it sounded like her.

Johansson said the voice was “so eerily similar to mine,” and although OpenAI chief Sam Altman said the voice had been assigned to another actor “before Ms. Johansson was contacted,” he apologized and suspended the chatbot.