Period 1
11/14/2023
Modern Mythology 2024
Socio-political Consciousness: Chat GPT
Is The Terminator saga less of a sci-fi film and more of a reality show? In the future, will Skynet and robots that are practically impervious to damage as well as infinitely knowledgeable exist? Maybe.
Of course, certain things from the film are likely to never exist, like the shapeshifting metal in Terminator 2 or time travel in The Terminator. However, I believe in the next 5 years, we will have most of the technology shown in the film. Facial recognition and information on every single person? Very plausible. China already has facial recognition, as well as social score. AI that can carry out a specific task using a replica of the human body? Well, we've already built the physical AI robots. One massive company over the production of these robots?
Definitely.
Chat GPT, and AI as a whole, has made a scarily fast progression. In much less than 2 years, we already have AI tools which can create essays for us, solve our math problems,give us illegal information and recipes, chat to us as our therapist or as a friend, create art and images either abstract or very similar to human work, create ultra-realistic portraits, and even stitch on faces to videos with it looking practically seamless. There are hiccups, and all of their functions are not absolutely perfect to our human eyes. However, if AI has come this far, imagine what it could do in the next year, or the next 5 years. We already have experts who warn that AI will lead to human extinction, and say combatting this, “... should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.” In modern culture, we acknowledge these risks, but we don’t actually believe in them. We joke Ai will be our overlords, and that we must start posting praising messages about AI so they don’t murder us when they do become sentient and look through our chat or post logs. We jokingly dream about what the world would be like with sentient robots patrolling our neighborhoods, with our AI leaders keeping a close eye on us, reminiscent of 1984 but with a robot Big Brother.
If AI continues advancing how it has been, we could easily see worldwide shortages of human jobs, being replaced by the AI counterparts. You would no longer need to pay money for a therapist, but there would be many AI therapists free online you could talk to, with the payment being your data. An underground search engine that allows you to use the infinite expanse of knowledge of AI to search up anything you ever wanted to, illegal or not. Unless extreme action is taken immediately about AI to remove it completely, I believe it will be here to stay and it will shift the world dramatically, more for bad than for good. We must take some kind of action to prevent AI from spiraling out of control, and allowing bad actors to exploit it, and to stop AI from becoming the bad actors themselves. There must be some guidelines, restrictions, or way we can leash AI. If we don’t, according to the experts, it could cause the end of society. Elon Musk, the ChatGPT Founder, Google DeepMind CEO, and countless other important and noble figures acknowledge this, and it’s not a coincidence. With all of this said, there remains only one more question.
Are you ready to bow down to our future overlords?
Bibliography
Of course, certain things from the film are likely to never exist, like the shapeshifting metal in Terminator 2 or time travel in The Terminator. However, I believe in the next 5 years, we will have most of the technology shown in the film. Facial recognition and information on every single person? Very plausible. China already has facial recognition, as well as social score. AI that can carry out a specific task using a replica of the human body? Well, we've already built the physical AI robots. One massive company over the production of these robots?
Definitely.
Chat GPT, and AI as a whole, has made a scarily fast progression. In much less than 2 years, we already have AI tools which can create essays for us, solve our math problems,
If AI continues advancing how it has been, we could easily see worldwide shortages of human jobs, being replaced by the AI counterparts. You would no longer need to pay money for a therapist, but there would be many AI therapists free online you could talk to, with the payment being your data. An underground search engine that allows you to use the infinite expanse of knowledge of AI to search up anything you ever wanted to, illegal or not. Unless extreme action is taken immediately about AI to remove it completely, I believe it will be here to stay and it will shift the world dramatically, more for bad than for good. We must take some kind of action to prevent AI from spiraling out of control, and allowing bad actors to exploit it, and to stop AI from becoming the bad actors themselves. There must be some guidelines, restrictions, or way we can leash AI. If we don’t, according to the experts, it could cause the end of society. Elon Musk, the ChatGPT Founder, Google DeepMind CEO, and countless other important and noble figures acknowledge this, and it’s not a coincidence. With all of this said, there remains only one more question.
Are you ready to bow down to our future overlords?
Bibliography
Darcy, O. (2023, May 31). Experts are warning ai could lead to human extinction. are we taking it seriously enough? | CNN business. CNN. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/30/media/artificial-intelligence-warning-reliable-sources/index.html
Statement on AI Risk: Cais. Statement on AI Risk | CAIS. (n.d.). https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk#signatories
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