ELON Musk has big plans to start a human colony on Mars in his lifetime and artificial intelligence has predicted what this might look like.
The SpaceX CEO has his sights set on ferrying one million people to the Red Planet by 2050.
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The U.S. Sun asked DALL·E, an artificially intelligent software, to show what a human city on Mars could look like.
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 Open AI.
“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 The Big Issue.
When it comes to Mars, DALL·E suggests a dystopian Martian could pop up on the Red Planet.
It conjured up impressive skyscrapers but some of the images make the imagined Martian cities look abandoned and even decrepit.
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Musk has previously admitted that life on Mars will be tough and the first humans there will likely suffer.
Understandably, a lot of people have questions about how Musk proposes the humans he takes to Mars will survive.
He previously tweeted: “Life in glass domes at first. Eventually, terraformed to support life, like Earth.”
Terraforming would mean creating the right environment outside the domes so plants could grow just like on Earth and there would be an oxygen supply.
When told that terraforming would be unlikely to work with current technologies Musk had another response.
He said: “Terraforming will be too slow to be relevant in our lifetime. However, we can establish a human base there in our lifetime.
“At least a future spacefaring civilization – discovering our ruins – will be impressed humans got that far.”
Musk has previously admitted that getting to Mars in his SpaceX rockets is the easy part but creating a city there will be tricky.
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