SCIENTISTS have just predicted that humanity is closer than ever before the apocalypse and DALL·E AI has imagined what that looks like.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists hosted a live virtual news conference today to reveal when they think the world will end.
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They reset the clock annually and this year it was put at 90 seconds to midnight.
That’s the closest the clock has ever been to midnight and it’s supposed to symbolize that we’re the closest we’ve ever been to ending humanity.
The Doomsday Clock countdown – which acts as a metaphor for the global apocalypse – takes into account the likelihood of emerging threats like war breaking out and the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic as well as advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
Fortunately, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists believes humans can lessen the threats to humanity that they’ve created.
The U.S. Sun asked DALL·E to show us it’s a version of what a worst-case scenario apocalypse would look like.
When given the keyword prompt “apocalypse this year”, DALL·E displayed several different concepts.
Most of them showed cities being destroyed and all showed ominous skies up above.
Created in 2021, DALL·E is known as a transformer language model that can turn almost any idea into images.
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“It receives both the text and the image as a single stream of data containing up to 1280 tokens and is trained using maximum likelihood to generate all of the tokens, one after another,” according to Open AI.
“This training procedure allows DALL·E to not only generate an image from scratch but also to regenerate any rectangular region of an existing image that extends to the bottom-right corner, in a way that is consistent with the text prompt.”
Since going viral, social media has been full of examples of people asking the DALL·E AI some pretty intense questions.
Popular TikTok accounts like “Robot Overlords” have been asking AI to predict futuristic events, including the demise of humanity and the apocalypse.
Even though AI can create some disturbing images, there’s no need to worry about it.
The AI is basing its creations on information humans have given it and is in no way actually predicting the future no matter how many TikTok accounts claim it is.
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