Iowa State Univ. professor predicts AI will become more a part of everyday life [Video]

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG) – In 2024, artificial intelligence or AI become a much more visible part of our everyday lives. So, what’s in store for 2025?

May 2024 is when Google launched AI Overview, the synopsis of information available online that now appears at the top of the page for many search results.

“I hate that thing,” said Doug Jacobson, a cybersecurity professor at Iowa State University. Jacobson doesn’t like that particular example of artificial intelligence, but good or bad, he knows more is coming.

“You’re going to be naive if you think that that we’re going to put this genie back in the bottle.”

Jacobson predicts that in 2025 this tool, already capable of creating life-like yet completely fabricated still images, will improve when it comes to fake animations and videos.

Already this technology is used to create videos known as deepfakes, showing someone doing or saying something …