The rise of AIs that can imitate humans has led to questions about what the future of the internet will look like. Video by Joel Ehsman.
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00:00The act of speaking with the dead is not new but evolving technologies have
00:04started to change a process that's been in place for hundreds if not thousands
00:07of years using AI. Professor Katina Michael from University of Wollongong
00:12says the social implications of emerging technologies. They have a huge bearing on
00:18our emerging technologies in fact emerging technologies cause social
00:23implications and AI is pretty much the next big wave of technology. I decided
00:29to try a DeafBot out. After signing up I was asked a series of questions about my
00:34life from childhood memories to what I do for work. Hit the pink button and tell
00:38me something about your life starting with this phrase. The first major news
00:43event I remember as a child was... The Boxing Day Tsunami. I distinctly remember
00:49my mom watching the news as it happened. The bot itself is very basic.
00:58It cannot make me say anything I hadn't already said to but other programs out
01:01there promise to do even more. In between questions the program will ask me to say
01:05phrases it would use to communicate. Next pressing the button to start and stop
01:10say the exact phrase that I'll give you in the pink bubble then hit play. So what
01:17does the future of the internet look like with AI? I asked Professor Michaels
01:21what she thought. The internet will continually develop over the next 10
01:25years. We have to be really careful that it is not riddled with disinformation
01:30because we're using it for collective intelligence purposes. So I definitely
01:34think there'll be more deep fakes. Very hard to distinguish between what's real
01:39and what's not real. It's fabricated. Even human beings as they portray to be
01:44humans but they're actually machine agents.