AI capabilities have improved rapidly over the past few years. Here’s a few things AIs can do as of May 2023:
1. Write code based on short descriptions of what you want.
Imagine you have an idea for a website, game, or app, but don’t know how to code. You can give an AI just a short description or even a drawing of what you want, and it will write the code for you.
2. Generate photorealistic images.
Give an AI a description of art you want, and the AI can generate it in almost any style. Give the AI a sample photograph of a person you want the image to look like, and the AI can create compelling deepfakes.
3. Convert 2D images and videos into 3D scenes.
Import a 2D picture or a video, and an AI can predict how it would look as a 3D scene with Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF). AIs can also identify objects within these scenes.
4. Clone voices.
With just a several second sample, AIs can create compelling voice clones. This technology has already been applied to deepfakes of famous figures (see this deepfake of former presidents gaming) and to make music that sounds just like it was written and sung by the artists being copied (see this deepfake Drake and The Weekend). Of course, it has also assisted scamming attempts. Fraudsters have cloned CEOs’ voices to convince employees to make million-dollar transfers; journalists have tested it to bypass their bank’s security systems; parents have been tricked by hearing realistic copies of their childrens’ voices begging for help.
5. Write exams, essays, emails, and articles – about almost any subject, in almost any language.