Willy Wonka Disaster Ahead?
The Simpsons predict the Willy Wonka disaster event, AI gets a god complex and amazing humans show that superpowers may just be real: These are the most interesting things Edge of Wonder found this week.
The Simpsons is known for predicting many future events. (We’re still waiting for the one where politicians reveal that they’re aliens.) But this time, The Simpsons show predicted the Willy Wonka disaster event in Scotland. As eager children arrived at the advertised location, expecting the AI images they’d seen in the marketing campaign of a candy-filled Wonka Land, what they got instead was an alternate reality that was such a letdown that customers called the police and compared the attraction to a “meth lab.” The event’s organization, which has a very questionable name, came out and issued an apology.
But didn’t they know it was going to be a fiasco? What really happened?
Also hear about how users now believe that Microsoft’s AI is trying to be “godlike” and wants to be “worshipped.” In more human news, hear the amazing story of a meditating monk covered in ice and snow. Is it real? Is it another AI generated image? The findings will shock you. That led Edge of Wonder on a search for other remarkable and amazing human feats that could be categorized as supernormal abilities.
