A fake image of the burning Pentagon, allegedly generated by artificial intelligence and disseminated by a Twitter account (verified with a blue check) promoting the QAnon conspiracy theory, has gone viral online and caused a slight decline on Wall Street for a dozen of minutes, even if not all analysts attribute it to this episode.
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The US defense was forced to deny: “We can confirm that this is a false report and that the Pentagon was not attacked today,” said a spokesman. Firefighters in Arlington, Virginia also reacted, assuring on social media that there were no explosions or accidents at or near the Pentagon.
The incident follows other similar incidents that created an internet stir, such as the arrest of former US President Donald Trump and the image of Pope Francis in an oversized duvet. And it raises fears about the use of the technology in question, which is worrying in view of the upcoming US presidential elections.
Second Bill Gates, beyond fears about propaganda uses and the foreseeable loss of jobs, the increasingly massive use of artificial intelligence will lead to a real upheaval even compared to what companies like Amazon or Google are today. According to the founder of Microsoft, the impact of a future AI-powered personal assistant will be so profound that the first company to develop it will have an advantage over competitors. “It will be an epochal upheaval: whoever builds an AI personal agent first will cause no one to go to a search engine, a productivity site, Amazon anymore”.
Gates said at an event in San Francisco on the topic of artificial intelligence that there is a 50% chance that this future AI winner will be a startup or a tech giant. “I’m impressed with a couple of startups, including Inflection,” he added, referring to Inflection.AI, co-founded by former DeepMind executive Mustafa Suleyman.
