Rockstar Games co-founder and ex-GTA boss Dan Houser has given more opinions on artificial intelligence, claiming that we’re not too far off from a future in which the controversial technology eats itself in some sort of ouroboros way that gives us mad cow (AI?) disease.
Speaking to Chris Evans (not the actor) for his Virgin Radio UK Breakfast Show on November 26 (as spotted by PC Gamer), Houser was asked about his gaming origins, the founding of Rockstar Games and the creation of Grand Theft Auto, and his new sci-fi thriller novel A Better Paradise. During the nearly 30-minute chat, Evans questioned Houser about the technodystopia he laid out in A Better Paradise and whether AI is as amazing as C-suite executives want us to think it is. Houser isn’t fully convinced.
“I personally don’t think it will because AI is going to eventually eat itself,” Houser said. “As far as I understand it–which is really a superficial understanding–the models scour the internet for information, but the internet is going to get more and more full of information made by the models. So, it’s sort of like when we fed cows with cows and got mad cow disease. I can’t see how the information will get better if they’re running out of data. [AI] will do some tasks brilliantly, but it’s not going to do every task brilliantly, and it’s going to become this sort of mirror of itself.”
