AI predicts what children born on Mars will look like – and the results are creepy and unsettling
ARTIFICIAL intelligence has been asked to predict what children on Mars will look like and the results aren't good news for the future of the human race.
Scientists suspect that living on Mars will have several strange and negative impacts on the human body and no one knows how this will affect birth.
The U.S. Sun asked DALL·E, an artificially intelligent software, to make the prediction and it came up with some creepily realistic-looking results.
When given keyword prompts like "children on Mars" and "baby born in space", DALL·E displayed several different concepts.
One shows a baby with no face and missing fingers floating in space.
Another depicts a very futuristic-looking boy and girl with concerned faces and huge hairstyles.
Nasa and Elon Musk have their sights set on sending humans to the Red Planet within the next few decades.
While they work on the logistics, other researchers are wondering what the new environment would do to the human body.
It's possible Mars colonists could eventually evolve into a new type of human.
According to , the harsh conditions on Mars could shrink the human skeleton and muscles.
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Astronauts staying on the International Space Station have experienced weakened bones.
If these effects can happen to astronauts in a short space of time, scientists think living full-time in space could drastically change how we're built.
Shrinking skulls could result in neurological conditions.
Weak bones and muscles could have other health complications.
Mars is further from the Sun than our planet and a regular day can look like an overcast day on Earth.
This darker environment could change human eyes over time.
Other challenges include the space radiation that humans would have to shelter from at all times.
Mars has an atmosphere that's much thinner than the one here on Earth and there's no magnetic field protection.
That means humans would need to find a way to survive the high levels of cancer-causing radiation.
What is DALL·E AI?
DALL·E is a machine learning model that was created by OpenAI to conjure up unusual images from keyword prompts.
Created in 2021, DALL·E is known as a transformer language model that can turn almost any idea into images.
"It receives both the text and the image as a single stream of data containing up to 1280 tokens and is trained using maximum likelihood to generate all of the tokens, one after another," according to .
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"This training procedure allows DALL·E to not only generate an image from scratch but also to regenerate any rectangular region of an existing image that extends to the bottom-right corner, in a way that is consistent with the text prompt."
DALL·E was named after Pixar’s Wall-E, according to .