We're Still Smarter Than Computers

The most frightening potential use is disinformation. Imagine a computer that can create unlimited amounts of false information or fake photos and you can't distinguish between what's real and fabricated. We hear all the time about technology that writes like people or converses like us, or makes realistic computer-generated human faces or faked videos. Repeatedly since the 1950s scientists have produced technologies that seemed as if we were close to mimicking human intelligence. Each time we were nowhere close.