Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Weird, Technology, Conspiracy Theories, Social Media
Humanity is constantly changing and expanding, but what an artificial intelligence believes we will look like in the future is a little bit confusing to say the least.
The power of AI is certainly being realized by the everyday person, and this has sparked a whole host of new questions.
Even here at UNILAD, we have got a little bit curious about what the future holds, and have used AI to see what awaits humanity in the future.
Now, you will have to take it with a pinch of salt because... well, it is just a computer, but it is still fun to imagine all the same.
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We decided to ask AI program Midjourney to mock up some pictures of what it reckons we will look like 1,000 years from now.
Unfortunately, it isn’t exactly what you would expect, as some of the images look downright disturbing.
To begin with, it looks like the fashion of the future is going to involve covering our faces in a web of wiring and whirring motors.
That holds some quite disturbing implications for our relationship with technology over the course of this millennium, since the AI image appears to show it having sunk its hooks into us good and proper.
The man from the year 3,000 appears to have sacrificed the skin of his face to make way for all of this futuristic technology, and it's frankly quite strange.
He really doesn't look happy at all, but the AI seems convinced in its prediction that this is what we're going to look like about 1,000 years from now and they've stuck to it in another image it created.
This poor person seems to have the same web of wires weaving their way across their face but oddly enough, it looks like they get to keep their skin - though that hardly makes the results any less disturbing.
Perhaps this is what societal beauty standards will be like 1,000 years from now, you've got to show off how many wires you've been able to attach to your face and having skin on that face is optional.
If this is the future of beauty then count me out, though even the AI generated images of some of our future selves who don't go in for the whole 'stick wires into your face' approach are still quite terrifying.
Among the results, there's a smattering of normal faces and then there's the Morlocks you see in the two middle spots on the bottom row.
I think at this point AI has been scouring the depths of science fiction for ideas, which would potentially mean that the AI's idea of what we'll look like in the future is strongly shaped by our own suggestions on that front.
Let's hope AI is wrong on this one.
