AI documentary 8

 Watching the AI Documentary could not have been done at a better time. Around us right now it seems everyone is talking about AI, it' s development, how much further it is going to go, and how much further we should let it go. 

    The documentary went into the detail about how people have been using AI and how AI has already affected us and how it is believed to affect us in the future. 

    AI is becoming more and more real as the days go by.  AI development sounded years away, but it seems everyday there's new talk about AI and what it is doing next. Recently, on an extremely popular  communication app used by teens around the globe (Snapchat) AI was integrated into our daily lives, and we weren't even aware it was to be happening or given a choice. A few weeks ago, Snapchat released it's built in AI chatbot "My AI" which appears pinned on users chat list and is not removable (that we know of yet). This AI bot is there and you can talk to it and ask it anything you please. 

    The uneasy thing about this AI bot is the unknown data it is collecting. Snapchat users were informed that the data given to the AI bots are collected by snapchat in order to "better the app", however we have reason to believe we don't really know what "My AI" is collecting from us. 

    Recently, ticktockers have been posting their message threads with these AI bots where they ask the bots if they can see(collect data on) photos they send the bot. The bot replies with no. So, the user sends a photo and uneasily the AI bot comments on the photo. The user asks how the bot knows what the contents of the photo were if they cannot see it, but the bot just continues to say it can't see the photo, even though it had just described it.