Thirty years ago, a friend who worked in IT in Silicon Valley in the United States said that when they were chatting and predicting the development of IT technology, they felt that three technologies would appear in the future, namely electric vehicles, smart phones and AI artificial intelligence technology.
At that time, they all saw the trend of the future, and also anticipated the convenience and harm brought by new technologies. For example, they expected that one day, even if you thought that your smartphone was turned off, in fact, caring people would still have a way to hear your voice and spy on your behavior through your mobile phone in nowhere in the world. As for AI technology, it will one day be able to become more intelligent than any human being through massive knowledge input. In this way, good people can use it to do good things, and bad people can use it to do bad things, and because people who do bad things are more focused, the harm will inevitably be huge.
Thirty years ago, they predicted this day, but they didn’t expect it to come so soon. Now, their conjectures have turned into facts. Smartphones and artificial intelligence are even more intertwined. If bad people want to do bad things, high-tech is even more powerful, and the methods are changing with each passing day. It is hard to guard against.
Recently, there are often inexplicable video calls on Facebook. The callers are completely unknown, and they will not answer them because they are wary. Later, a friend told me that this might be a way for someone to trick you into capturing your voice and dynamic appearance. After you chat with him for a few minutes, your voice and appearance will be trapped, and someone with a heart will have the ability to generate a video of your voice and appearance, which can be used for what they want.
High technology is a double-edged sword, which can help or destroy others. At least so far, the foundation of trust between people has been shaken. Even if they hear a familiar voice or see a familiar face, they no longer believe in it. Many friends said that now some secret codes have been set up between family members. Everyone has agreed that in some special circumstances, whether it is hearing a voice or seeing a face, if they cannot tell the secret code, it will be treated as a fraud. If things go on like this, such a precious thing as “trust” will be destroyed one day, and human beings can only live in suspicion under the mentality that seeing may not be believing.
Li Chunen
