In recent years, advances in tech has taken the world by storm and as every year passes by, it is difficult for anyone to actually come up with the prediction of what the future will look like.
The 21st century have witnessed tremendous changes in technology ranging from wired phones to wireless one, ease of communication, faster spread and movement of information and even to massive reduction in sizes of gadgets.
This has lead to reduced number of human work-forces, ease of carrying out enormous task with less energy and it also result in several disadvantages.
Despite all this, one thing is for sure and with greater certainty in tech and that is the chips will get smaller, the machines will get faster,the networks will get denser, the displays will get richer and more pronounced, and our reliance on tech will increase and become much more on greater rise.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the intelligence exhibited by machines and it has many uses today which is almost ubiquitous with activities of man ranging from what you say to what is in a photo and this is due to resurgence of AI especially in the field of machine learning with greater emphasis on the field of deep thinking.
2017 was an incredible year in tech when you consider just how much artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning made their presence felt in the real and virtual world, 2018 could the ultimate year for AI but also the year of much scandal or technological prowess as already exhibited with Deep fakes .
Deep fakes, a combination of 'fake' and 'deep learning' is an AI aided technology used for swapping faces of people in a video. It started popping up online in December, when a Reddit user began posting explicit videos of notable celebrities online. When the technology site Motherboard first reported on the user in December last year, they had already made images featuring women including Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot, Taylor Swift, Scarlett Johansson, and Game of Thrones actor Maisie Williams.
This technology took another turn in January, this case 'unexpected' turn when another Reddit user published an app that enables anyone swap faces without much technical knowledge leading to production of many deepfakes videos.
Most people familiar with "face-swapping" see it as social media feature known to be the best selling and fast rising technology of 2018 with over a hundred thousand downloads and application in less than a month . Here, an algorithm captures a person's face and pastes it onto someone else's. The result is rarely seamless and often funny.
But as it grows more sophisticated, that technology has taken a sinister turn: It's now become easier to superimpose the faces of celebrities onto those of actors in pornographic films, resulting in highly-realistic fake videos.
The deep fakes and news pertaining to its epidemic has put a harsh light on how social media can be manipulated and how lifestyle can be influenced. It also shows that no matter your field or discipline or way of life or belief system, this technology using such algorithms put you in a digital cloud or ecosystem where you view the world in whatever way you or your cohorts wish to see it.
