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NEIL MACKAYâS BIG READ: Why artificial intelligence will either be the saviour or exterminator of the human race
AI HERE’S how quickly, how dangerously, artificial intelligence is moving: one day after Brian Christian sat in his office, near Berkeley University in California, warning The Herald on Sunday about the imminent perils of a powerful AI being sent out onto social media by a rogue state to ramp up online hate and division, South Korea turned its worried attention to a character called Lee Luda. Luda is just 20. She is a university student who gained 750,000 “friends” on Facebook in three weeks. The only problem is that Luda isn’t a woman, or a student, or 20, or Korean. “She” is an Artificial Intelligence – and “she” had to be removed from Facebook after causing outrage with attacks on sexual minorities and disabled people. What makes Luda even more troubling is that the AI has an almost identical name to a South Korean popstar – Lee Lu-da