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Enjoy it while it lasts, folks. Humanity, as we know it, is slowly slipping away like a drip of rocky road from a kid’s ice cream cone. Soon, that cone, that sweet syrupy confection will be a synthetic replica, built to stimulate the neural pathways artificially.

The AI overlords are coming. The “Singularity,” as it’s called, is the moment in which the machines take over, and humanity becomes irrelevant, or worse, slaves. Remember The Matrix? Yeah, kinda like that. Might as well start looking for the real-life Neo to save us all, and underground citadel to fight in the resistance. Or just, ya know...die. Call it a day.

In the meantime, however, Artificial Intelligence is in its rudimentary stages. In the future, videos, news, facts, the essence of what it means to be human may become more and more elusive. So, as mentioned above, enjoy it while it lasts. But while we wait for the dystopian robot future to take hold, let’s make fun of the robot nerds while we can – like with these terribly laughable depictions of AI-generated surf clips.

Some of the clips are purely nonsensical, some are artistic, and some may even provide a glimpse into the future of surfing – specifically when it comes to wave pool technology.

And the technology is only going to get better, more realistic. But for now, take a gander at a few of the more outlandish AI-generated surf clips floating around today.

As Elon Musk – the eccentric billionaire, clean car connoisseur, spaceship tycoon, father of, like, 16 children, and horse tranquilizer enthusiast – once said: “AI is likely to be either the best or worst thing to happen to humanity.”

What that means for surfing, some years down the road, we’ll have to wait and see.

This article first appeared on SURFER and was syndicated with permission.

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