As the arms race of deep-learning based image generation systems marches on, we breathlessly follow their ever-increasing capabilities. Critics warn they may lead to the end of the world as we know it — and it already has.
Meanwhile, tech companies challenge us to use their AI systems to dream and imagine — to indulge our most fantastic (yet “safe”) creative visions. Cats playing chess. Astronauts on horseback. Humans made from circuit boards.
I asked AI to fix the world.