The Uncanny Horror of AI Hallucinations

Why is it so creepy when AI gets it wrong? And what does it have to do with us…? Perhaps the vampires of Blindsight, the quirks of our visual cortex, and my sleep paralysis demon can explain ;) Watch my videos ad-free, before anyone else, by joining Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/sarahdavisbaker Watch this video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/sarahdavisba... Support me on Patreon: Patreon: sarahdavisbaker TW: Contains depictions of visual & auditory hallucinations in humans, some mildly frightening. Mild flashing patterns. SPOILERS? Mild early/mid-book spoilers for Blindsight. No AI footage was used in this video, aside from pre-existing examples found across the web. Thanks to Danil Krivoruchko for the use of footage from the Blindsight short film. Full credits: https://blindsight.space Thanks to Johan Nordberg for the use of footage from 'Inside the Mind of An Artificial Brain' and 'Noisedive', the zooming Deep Dream videos: https://vimeo.com/132700334 https://vimeo.com/132593159 AI HALLUCINATIONS REFERENCED Unauthorized voice generation: https://openai.com/index/gpt-4o-syste... Looking for a light: https://chatgpt.com/share/cf83f171-9a... Hour by hour, I am sick and cannot move & 'please go home (intro)' hallucinations: https://chatgpt.com/share/f5341665-7f... Final reminder: Reddit: chat_gpt_voice_breaks_character_and_turns_demonic King of cups: Reddit: creepy_groans_in_read_aloud_feature Innocence was bliss: https://suno.com/song/a76330f6-c472-4... See better in the sun: https://chatgpt.com/share/0c8869d5-bf... Code meltdown: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/sc... READING MATERIALS REFERENCED Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks Blindsight by Peter Watts Minds, Brains & Programs by John Searle The Uncanny Valley by Masahiro Mori Le Jardin by Oscar Wilde Seeing Red: A Study in Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey Music from Epidemic Sound ADDITIONAL VIDEO & PHOTO ATTRIBUTIONS Free Vj Loop, Noisy texture by Catmac, CC BY-SA 3.0 Cube, 60 transforms by Frederik Vanhoutte, CC BY-SA 3.0 Necker Cube in Pseudoscopic 3d by Rxe08, CC BY-SA 3.0 Electrical and chemical communication between neurons by Oist, CC BY-SA 3.0 PACS Recap Reflection- Brain CT by Nick Bates, CC BY-SA 3.0 The Rake (2014) Horror by Shun Otsubo, CC BY 3.0 Puma con su cachorro by Daniel Cross, CC BY-SA 3.0 HOW TO HUG A SUNFLOWER by Leonardo Venturi, CC BY 3.0 Sunflower by matt freire, CC BY 3.0 hallucination dream sequence, 2017 by Benjamin Gardner, CC BY 3.0 Keep Your Eyes Ahead by Whitney Van Cleave, CC BY 3.0 Rorschach Trailer 2017 by Claudia Wirth, CC BY 3.0, Vimeo Sunflower timelapse by Typotheque, CC BY 3.0, Vimeo Fall by JRphotography.eu, CC BY 3.0 Evan Pokrandt - Catch by Evan Pokrandt, CC BY 3.0 Robot arm R1 operation of the autonomous laboratory by Nathan J. Szymanski et al., CC BY 4.0 Waarom hebben we nog steeds geen robot als BFF by Universiteit van Nederland, CC BY 3.0 Robots at Miraikan by Davide Mauro, CC BY 4.0 How people imagined hell in the Middle Ages by Terra X, CC BY 4.0 Interior of the Old Library, Trinity College, Dublin by Yair Haklai, CC BY 4.0 Smodinkna pečina by Bojan Marušič, CC BY 4.0 Buizerd vliegend by Natuur Digitaal (Marc Plomp), CC BY-SA 3.0 Activities of the 94th Aero Squadron (France) (1918), US National Archives, CC BY 3.0 Controle voor luchtverkeer & 'Nieuwe radarinstallatie Weeknummer by Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, CC BY-SA 3.0 Camara de Lobos Pareidolia by TeWeBs, CC BY 4.0 Болото-смайлик by Ted.ns, CC BY 4.0 Old concrete wall by Tomascastelazo, CC BY 4.0 Pareidolia metal face by Mbejger, CC BY 4. Stripes on flank of Grévy's zebra by Servali, CC BY 4.0 Western honey bee on a honeycomb by Matthew T Rader, CC BY 4.0 Disegno su una piuma by Albarubescens, CC BY 4.0 Las Palmas, botánico 1993 by LBM1948, CC BY 4.0 Wisconsin patterns by Šarūnas Burdulis, CC BY 2.0 Münster by Park Sentmaring, CC BY-SA 4.0 Jack pattern by Baluperoth, CC BY-SA 4.0 Patterns in the sand, Sands of Forvie National Nature Reserve by Martyn Gorman, CC BY 2.0 Internet archive (public domain): 7 Tesla MRI of the ex vivo human brain at 100 micron resolution by Edlow, Brian L. et al. (2019), Brain Portraits by Tomas Laurenzo neurons by Vritis First aid Plan 9 from Outer Space by Ed Wood Orion Nebula 3D Fly-Through by NASA Micrin Mouthwash Commercial Ghosts of Hanley House The Green Hat by Lilla Cabot Perry, 1913 Peacocks by Melchior d' Hondecoeter, 1683 Bulb Fields by Vincent van Gogh, 1883 The Ladies Waldegrave by Joshua Reynolds, 1780 Holy crap, I think that's all of them. I almost ran out of characters.