Scientists Have Created a Machine That Takes Photos and Makes Them Scary To Humans
Because scientists are always so preoccupied on whether they could, and not whether they should, we now have a computer that transforms images into things that scare humans. Geekologie reports "The Nightmare Machine" is the product of a bunch of researchers at MIT who were inspired by the words of Elon Musk:
"Elon Musk said that with the development of AI, we are 'summoning the demon'...We wanted to playfully explore whether and how AI can indeed become a demon, that can learn how to scare us, both by extracting features from scary images and subsequent refinement using crowd feedback."
The result is effective in some cases (above), and in others just hilarious. That picture below is just Mickey Mouse with some skeletons in the background!
Bambi appears to have the same issue, although it does look scarier:
At least it's good to know that, for now anyway, this robot isn't that scary. I'd hate to see what it comes up with after a couple years, though!