{"id":31587,"date":"2016-11-01T12:47:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T19:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-have-built-a-nightmare-machine-to-generate-the-scariest-images-ever"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:05:57","slug":"scientists-have-built-a-nightmare-machine-to-generate-the-scariest-images-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/scientists-have-built-a-nightmare-machine-to-generate-the-scariest-images-ever","title":{"rendered":"Scientists have built a Nightmare Machine to generate the scariest images ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-have-built-a-nightmare-machine-to-generate-the-scariest-images-ever.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re supposed to be building robots and AI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/meet-the-new-robot-that-was-built-to-stab-people\">for the good of humankind<\/a>, but scientists at MIT have pretty much been doing the opposite \u2014 they\u2019ve built a new kind of AI with the sole purpose of generating the most frightening images ever.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Halloween, the aptly named <a href=\"http:\/\/nightmare.mit.edu\/\">Nightmare Machine<\/a> uses an algorithm that \u2018learns\u2019 what humans find scary, sinister, or just downright unnerving, and generates images based on what it thinks will freak us out the most.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere have been a rising number of intellectuals, including Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking, raising alarms about the potential threat of superintelligent AI on humanity,\u201d one of the team, Pinar Yanardag Delul, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitaltrends.com\/cool-tech\/mit-nightmare-machine\/\">told Digital Trends.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-built-a-nightmare-machine-to-generate-the-scariest-images-ever\">http:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-have-built-a-nightmar...mages-ever<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re supposed to be building robots and AI for the good of humankind, but scientists at MIT have pretty much been doing the opposite \u2014 they\u2019ve built a new kind of AI with the sole purpose of generating the most frightening images ever. Just in time for Halloween, the aptly named Nightmare Machine uses an [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2019,41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elon-musk","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31587"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65870,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31587\/revisions\/65870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}