The robotics and AI revolution will, like climate change, disrupt life as we know it; what future will it herald for humans? - Firstpost

Last week, a video went viral on social media around the world. It shows a robotic arm picking up a bowling ball, spinning its arm around, and hurling the ball down the lane at speed, sending all the bowling pins flying. It soon emerged that the very real-looking video was in fact fake, the work of a motion graphics designer who had hash-tagged it with words such as animation, rendering and CGI to indicate that it was computer-generated, before sharing on social media. Nonetheless, from the reactions it was clear that not everyone picked up the clues; many if not most people thought it was real. The impossibility of distinguishing between fake and real in images and videos is an everyday occurrence now, something we just have to live with.