Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fast gaining serious attention. Industry reports show that AI’s market cap has already skyrocketed to a whopping $400B. From wild images and audio to text generation services – AI is now widely accessible to the masses. Recently, after witnessing a few bizarre instances created with AI, analysts Shaquille O’Neal and Stephen A Smith expressed their uneasiness. Employing AI to create ‘competition-level bodybuilding visuals’ was particularly alarming.
NBA players require an optimal level of gymming to play at the most competitive level. Yet, an AI-generated depicting them as bodybuilders would no doubt unease many. Nevertheless, it’s impressive to see the ‘magic’ of artificial intelligence concretize into a visual reality. It goes without saying that posts like these featuring screenshots shared by Shaq on his Instagram have a certain eerie quality about them. Notably, O’Neal has demonstrated his curious skepticism of post-age technology shortly after trying to dive into cryptocurrencies.
However, an unsuccessful stint with digital money initiated a class action lawsuit yet educated him regarding how ‘technical and confusing’ blockchain technology can be. O’Neil’s incredulity of an AI driven world is likely shared by many other people even now.
