Creepiest things AI has predicted – from the apocalypse to last selfie on Earth

ARTIFICIAL intelligence programs have been used to forecast disasters in humanity's future.

AI predicts the apocalypse

If you've ever wondered what the apocalypse would look like in the United States, artificial intelligence has been asked to predict it.

Popular TikTok accounts like "Robot Overloards" have been asking AI to predict futuristic events, including the demise of humanity and the apocalypse.

The images include futuristic cities that looked deserted and crumbling.

The AI is basing its creations on information humans have given it and is in no way actually predicting the future no matter how many TikTok accounts claim it is.

The creators behind Craiyon even acknowledge its limitations on its website.

They explain: "While the capabilities of image generation models are impressive, they may also reinforce or exacerbate societal biases.

AI creates the last selfie on Earth

This terrifying masterpiece also comes from another prompt entered by the Robot Overloards TikTok account.

Entering "the last selfie ever taken" in the text box of an undisclosed image generator spawns several images, not for the faint-hearted.

Each AI-generated image shows apocalyptic scenes.

They all include mutilated humans holding phones as chaos ensues around them.

AI predicts the end of mankind

The popular Craiyon AI, formerly DALL-E mini AI image generator, designed some barren landscapes and scorched plains when prompted to predict the end of humans.

When prompted to generate images representing the end of mankind, the AI spit out a burned terrain and some of the images showed a solo traveler.

The images do unfortunately resonate with the notion that the world-ending incident will have survivors who roam the dystopia alone.

One of the positive interpretations of this image is that it's not necessarily staged on Earth.

The red overtones jive with the surface of Mars, which would mean humans achieved a multi-planetary existence before the end of mankind.

AI predicts the end of the Solar System

When prompted to generate images representing the destruction of the Solar System, the Craiyon AI bot showed scenes of the Sun engorging on other planets, a mystical planet appearing from deep space, or tendrils flowing from the Sun.

While each scene is up to interpretation, the central theme of most of the images is that the end of the Solar System will be caused by an explosive Sun.

And the AI bot's prediction is mostly right.

Researchers say the end of the Solar System is between five and 10 billion years away when the Sun burns out and engulfs most of the inner planets.

AI predicts crime

An artificial intelligence program designed to predict crime before it occurs was introduced to select American cities.

The AI program makes its prediction based on a continuously updating police event log - a detailed report with information on when, where, and what type of crime has occurred.

The program is said to be able to predict the time and location of a crime with 80 to 90% accuracy, according to a study published in the academic journal Nature.

AI predictions are, of course, only as good as the programming that went into them.

Humans are yet to develop a program with greater intelligence than our own and therefore human experts should be trusted above AI image generators or programs.