Examples of Generative Video Effects are getting pretty mind blowing at this stage.

The latest Awe Gazing at AI Tech is from platforms like FaceFusion, now making it even easier to seamlessly swap out faces on videos.

You can essentially record yourself and put any face you want in place of yours. Not only this, voice generation has reached an equally convincing level where you can sound like whoever you like too.

Check out this video that features a fake Barack Obama.

Obviously this brings up a myriad of concern about authenticity and Deep Fakes. The potential for any video to be fake is now a real one, so this will likely cause a general skepticism of anything we see online.

Strangely, not necessarily a negative outcome as the need to do further investigation or fact checking of the content individuals consume has long been advised, it may now become self evident.

The idea of having AI in any position of authority that would determine the fate of humans seems at first like the essence of George Orwell’s book ‘1984’ or the beginnings of Skynet in the Terminator. I get it, but is there an upside to this that is easy to overlook?

What are we proposing?

Let’s start this thought experiment with the following framing so we can zero in on the essential pro’s and con’s.

‘An AI that is able to consult with every individual around the Globe and Provide Recommendations on the best path forward to achieve the goals for all.’

Let’s first of all get away from the idea of AI ruling over us. We’re going to think of using an AI as a problem solver, not an authority.

For Part 1 of this thought experiment we will be consulting an AI to write it too, namely ChatGPT4.

So, I asked ChatGPT4 to get right into it. Straight away it pointed out that Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs would be a good start. Then, proceeded to lay out the whole process.

For the sake of brevity I asked for a summary, and of course ChatGPT obliged:

Overall, pretty logical and thoughtful at first glance., a couple of interesting points to note:

“Using emotion recognition” - may seem creepy at first, but I guess it could be helpful?

“Sifts through personal data” - would clearly need to be the voluntarily provided answers to the initial survey.

Part 2 next week, let’s put some Human intuition into this!

The State of AI Report is produced by Venture Capital firm investing in AI-first technologies and life science companies. Their strategy is to get in early on AI development, so it stands to reason they have a ready team of researchers thoroughly checking out the current trends of AI potential.

Here is a bit of a summary:

ChatGPT4 is still at the top despite efforts to surpass it with smaller fine tuned models.

Language Models and Image Generators are forging new innovation applications in all areas including biological and drug discovery.

Compute is the new Oil as companies seek to leverage Machine Learning to establish themselves in the AI economy. Suppliers like Nvidia are cashing in by providing the state of the art hardware needed.

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