It continues to amaze how artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of creating absolutely fake but incredibly plausible content. After the fake images that have been around the world (by the way, you can find the best ones here), AI has generated a real talk show on Twitch, with guests of the caliber of Dave Chappelle, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Keanu Reeves and even Jesusgoing beyond the boundaries of blasphemy.
The talk is aired 24 hours a day on the AtheneAIHeroes Twitch channel, which is the name of the program itself. Needless to point out – but these days it’s never useless – that the answers provided by guests are all generated by the AI, which processes the information by accessing a vast database. After all, artificial intelligence at least for nowdoes not yet have the power to bring the dead back to life.
AtheneAIHeroes: il talk show dell’AI
The project – reports La Repubblica – was born from the imagination of the forty-year-old Belgian Bachir Boumaza, known on the web under the pseudonym Athene. This one, famous for his live streams while playing World of Warcraft, has decided to host AI versions of some of the most important personalities on the planet on his channel. The public can ask questions through polls and the AI, impersonating the guest on duty, answers.
Between moments of obvious embarrassment, in which artificial intelligence shows its limits, and funny ones, the Athene channel is grinding viewers and curiosities. Specifically the AI that provides the answers is GPT3the ChatGPT engine, which was recently superseded by the release of the more up-to-date GPT4.
“We made sure that the result could be more of a funny parody than a simple imitation,” Reese Leysen, a spokeswoman for Boumaza, told Vice.
Boumaza’s personality is downright charming. Man is an active part of Singularity Group, a collective of activists who, as stated on their official website, “work on an innovation capable of making a difference in the world”. Boumaza loves technology, video games and does a lot of charity. Other online portals, always reports La Repubblica, instead denounce the true nature of the Singularity Group, believed to be a sect with political ideologies that aim at a universal income in a world in which machines carry out all the jobs that today are carried out by man.