You’ve seen the 2001 movie Artificial Intelligence, haven’t you? Beyond the fictitious tropes, as depicted in sci-fi, literature, and games, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has come to be somewhat of an impressive, if not slightly concerning, technological milestone. Though somewhat still far from being near-sentient, extremely adaptive digital consciousness, recent advances in modern AI development has led to the creation of various AI generation tools, including those for art and text.
From a scientific standpoint, it’s all well and good, but what of it legally and ethically? While it’s good that AI is helping to progress what can be done online, it also poses questions that our current laws and structures are not built to handle. Much like the horror of movies that tell the tale of hostile machine takeovers, AI is presently accelerating at a pace that’s faster than what can feasibly be managed, and Meta’s recent announcement could end up further vexing the ongoing discourse.
“CICERO is the first artificial intelligence agent to achieve human-level performance in the popular strategy game Diplomacy. Diplomacy has been viewed as a nearly impossible challenge in AI because it requires players to understand people’s motivations and perspectives, make complex plans and adjust strategies, and use language to convince people to form alliances.”
So, Meta is making impossible things possible now? Intriguing. Meta also notes that CICERO can theoretically have applications outside of the game Diplomacy, though currently, that’s the only thing it can do. Besides the above-mentioned statement, imagine if AI systems would one day be able to converse with us just like real people do. While not directly stating that it’s already in the works, Meta does seem to be hinting at it. AI systems capable of independent and spontaneous thoughts? Yep, I can’t recall a movie that ended without any sort of conflict at all that played around the same ideas.
User @nearcyanalso posted something about ‘DeepCloning’, which could potentially see people one-day creating AI-powered clones of real people they want to build relationships with. Ever heard of the term ‘Deepfake’? DeepCloning is like that, only to a much deeper level.
The Wrap
So yeah, the internet is home to some weird and wonderful stuff, and while AI has indeed been a boon to certain areas of online interaction, it can’t help but also have a freaky side to it. What’s more, people seem to be indulging the idea as the trend is gaining momentum, which could eventually push us into very challenging territory. Meta is leading the charge here and when its Metaverse vision does see fruition, then one can simply imagine the scale at which AI-generated elements would start proliferating. Pretty soon, the already-blurred line between what’s real and what isn’t could seamlessly meld, which is its own can of worms to be opened.
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