Detox. No, an artificial intelligence did not foresee the decline of humanity

Ecological catastrophe or technological paradise: what will our future look like? In the absence of a crystal ball, millions of Internet users have turned to a video posted on Twitter who announce : ” Here’s what happens when you ask an artificial intelligence to generate the future of humanity. Verdict: It’s scary! »

The short film, lasting about forty seconds, begins with a macaque whose features gradually merge into a caveman, then into a medieval knight, replaced by a modern man in jeans holding a smartphone. So far, it’s been pretty good. But quickly, the human becomes a cyborg, then another whose last centimeters of skin give way to a robot, before its silhouette disappears.

Beyond the artistic prowess, the frightening divinatory capacity of the machine terrified many Internet users. The presentation made of this video, shared by more than 50,000 people, is however totally misleading. And it is its creator who says so.

Disappointed to discover that his work had been massively shared without being quoted, the artist Fabio Comparelli warned, from his Instagram account: ” If you want to share the video, mention my name, and don’t write “Here’s what happens when you ask an artificial intelligence to predict human evolution”. It may scare some people […] who will actually believe it will happen “. And to explain his approach: I clearly influenced and told the artificial intelligence what type of images I wanted to have, and when. It’s just the result of my imagination… »

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