#BackToTheFuture: A man brings back his dead fiancé through Artificial Intelligence
A man uses AI to bring his deceased fiancé back to life and we are intrigued...
There are many things in life that leave us sitting on the fence, but when it comes to technology, there is a mix of emotion. Mainly because it can be construed as a source of good, but so many times it is used for the opposite.
When it comes to advancements in technology, we can firmly say that there are some things that we have to learn from when it comes to being exposed to smart technology. For instance, when we realised that by using assistant services like Siri and Google Assistant, you could be sharing vital information about your likes and dislikes that could be sold to marketers...
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But when we heard about this story, we honestly felt a bit taken aback by it all, spooked out and crazy at the same time. After Joshua Barbeau's fiancé passed away, he used GPT-3 technology, which is part of the Project December, an AI model designed by the Elon Musk-backed research group OpenAI, Business Insider reports.
He used this tech to have conversations with his late fiancé. How? Well, "Barbeau detailed how Project December, a software that uses artificial intelligence technology to create hyper-realistic chatbots, recreated the experience of speaking with his late fiancé. All he had to do was plug in old messages and give some background information, and suddenly the model could emulate his partner with stunning accuracy." (Business Insider)
Crazy, right? But freaking amazing as well. If that's what science and technology can do, it can allow many people to say goodbye to loved ones and who knows, even help with the whole process of healing. But on the other hand, it could be so damning for some people who may use it for all the wrong reasons.
"GPT-3 can imitate human writing, producing everything from academic papers to letters from former lovers." So it's safe to say that this kind of technology can be dangerous if released to the public. It is considered to be some of the most advanced and sophisticated (and dangerous) language-based AI programming to date.
Some of the fears associated with this tech includes, using the tech to create abusive or illegitimate social media content, creating misleading or misinformed news pieces, even impersonating people online.
And these are just things that they have thought about, what about the things that haven't been considered? Because you know that there is someone out there who may take this as an invitation to do more...
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