AI: Fun + Terrible

 This week I have enjoyed telling CoPilot, an AI website, to draw some awesome pictures. Have you ever seen the batmobile jumping off of a canyon into a volcano?

Now you have!

    What about a jackalope that looks like the joker carrying a bazooka riding a flamingo Lamborghini?

There you go.

    I also have several different stages of a horse riding a motorcycle. This being the first:

    The second stage of this drawing was this horse wearing an overcoat and a fedora riding a bulletbike.

    And the final drawing was this horse in a Batman mask and a sombrero, still wearing the overcoat:

    

    So I couldn't argue that AI isn't fun to mess around with, and I also want that last picture hanging in my room, but AI is also terrible.

    Recently I was able to talk to the New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen, author of The False Prince among several other incredible books.

    When I got to talk to her I asked her about her views on AI. She said that it was evil. Her reasoning was that during World War Two, when the Nazis were saying that the Jews were less than human, one of the biggest ways the Jewish people fought back was by making art, which was something that only humans could do. It was their way to prove to Hitler that he was wrong. Now here comes AI, making great artwork. I can't remember her exact quote, but she said something along the lines of 'AI will destroy people's humanity.'

    Elon Musk was recently asked the question. 'What do you think the chances are that AI will take over the world within the next ten years?'

    Musk replied by saying, 'ten, maybe twenty percent.' That's crazy! But what does Elon care, he'll be halfway to Mars in the next ten years.

    So AI is fun, but we need to be careful because if we aren't, then we can kiss humanity goodbye.