Dan Houser Says AI Developers "Aren't Fully Rounded Humans"
Former Rockstar writer also compared the spread of AI to mad cow disease.
Dan Houser, the co-founder of Rockstar and writer of most GTA installments, spoke out against AI in creative fields, saying that "Some of these people trying to define the future of humanity, creativity, or whatever it is using AI are not the most humane or creative people," in a recent interview with Virgin Radio UK.
Houser had an interview with The Chris Evans Breakfast Show, where he talked about his new book, A Better Paradise Volume One: An Aftermath, which is about a video game project that goes wrong because its AI starts to produce disturbing results and becomes too powerful.
At some point, Evans asked Houser if he agreed that AI would never fully replace human creativity, to which Houser replied that he agrees and that the people who are pushing generative AI aren't precisely the most qualified people in the field. "They're sort of saying 'we're better at being human than you are', and it's obviously not true. One of the other things we're trying to capture is that humanity is being pulled in a direction by a certain group of people who maybe aren't fully rounded humans," he said
Virgin Radio UK
He also believes that artificial intelligence will "eventually eat itself" due to its inherent nature. He suggested that the act of AI searching and gathering information from the internet, which will then be populated with the information collected by AI, will make the web unreliable.
"I can't see how the information gets better if they're already running out of data. It will do some task brilliantly, but it's not going to do every task brilliantly."
Finally, Houser added that while some aspects of artificial intelligence are impressive, the way it feeds the internet can be compared to mad cow disease, and that we are being convinced that it's a transformative technology, but "to make it a perfect simulation of something in the real world, is very, very hard."
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