The first step to true artificial intelligence?. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. There's far too much negativity and fearmongering around AI today. It doesn't matter what news story breaks – if it's about Google Gemini getting a ‘memory’ or ChatGPT telling a user something that's plainly wrong, it'll cause uproar from some part of the online community.
![[Terminator]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/KrLJtRfrQNCBaifpgDWmhV-320-80.jpg)
The attention that AI currently has regarding true artificial general intelligence (AGI) has created an almost hysterical media landscape built around visions of Terminator fantasies and other doomsday scenarios. That's not surprising, though. Humans love a good Armageddon – heck, we've been fantasizing about it enough over the last 300,000 years. From Ragnarok to the Apocalypse to the End Times, and every major fantasy blockbuster littered with mass destruction in between, we're obsessed. We just love bad news, and that's the sad truth of it, for whatever genetic reason that may be.
![[Google Gemini AI]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/ACnYjRmTW5kqnCzoVmZyGH-320-80.png)
The way AGI is painted these days, by pretty much every major vocal outlet, very much stems from this idea of it being the very worst of humanity. It, of course, sees itself as a superior force that's hampered by insignificant humans. It evolves to a point where it no longer needs its creators and inevitably ushers in some form of end-of-world event that wipes us all off the face of the earth, either through nuclear annihilation or a pandemic. Or worse still, it leads to eternal damnation instead (courtesy of Roko's Basilisk).
![[Representation of AI]](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/Wcc69A4Ts8bhSbGgJeGkoZ-320-80.jpg)
