New exhibition in US depicts a post-apocalyptic world destroyed by AI

Have you ever ever puzzled what life could be if synthetic intelligence grow to be too highly effective? 

A brand new exhibition titled the ‘Misalignment Museum’ has opened to the general public in San Francisco – the beating coronary heart of the tech revolution – appears to discover simply that, and options AI artworks meant to assist guests take into consideration the potential risks of synthetic intelligence. 

The displays on this non permanent present combine the disturbing with the comedian, and this primary show has AI give pithy observations to guests that cross into its line of imaginative and prescient.

“The idea of the museum is that we’re in a post-apocalyptic world the place synthetic common intelligence has already destroyed most of humanity,” stated Audrey Kim, curator of the present.

“However then the AI realises that was unhealthy and creates a sort of memorial to the human, so our present’s tagline is ‘sorry for killing most of humanity.’”

Discussions concerning the security of synthetic intelligence have to this point remained inside “area of interest mental circles on Twitter,” Kim defined, including that they’ve hardly ever been simply accessible to most people.

The exhibit occupies a small house in a avenue nook constructing in San Francisco’s Mission neighbourhood.

The decrease flooring of the exhibition is devoted to AI as a nightmarish dystopia the place a machine powered by GPT-3, the language mannequin behind ChatGPT, composes spiteful calligrams in opposition to humanity, in cursive writing.

One exhibit is an AI-generated – and faux – dialogue between the thinker Slavo Zizek and the filmmaker Werner Hertzog, two of Europe’s most revered intellectuals.

This “Infinite Dialog” is a meditation on deep fakes: photographs, sound or video that goal to control opinion by impersonating actual folks and which have grow to be the newest disinformation weapon on-line.

The set up is scheduled to run till 1 Might, however the creators hope to make it a everlasting exhibit.