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Post by statuslover9000 »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

As Antonio Gramsci said: “Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.”

The forces of blind or cynical techno-optimism accelerating capitalism may feel insurmountable, but the future is not set in stone. Every day around the world, people in seemingly hopeless circumstances nevertheless devote their lives to fighting for what they believe in, and sometimes enough people do this over years or even decades that there’s a rupture in oppressive systems and humanity is forever changed for the better. We can only strive to live by our most deeply held values, within the circumstances we were placed, so that when we look back at the end of our lives we can take comfort in the fact that we did the best we could, and just maybe this will be enough to avert the inevitable.

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Post by ramathornn »

HermitX wrote: post #691

AI will eventually be capable of performing most of the tasks humans can do. My neighbor's child is only 6 years old now. What advice do you think I should give to his parents to develop their child in a way that avoids him growing up to find that AI can do everything better than he can?

Humans seems to always find a way to make it work, so I’d tell them to enjoy their younger years and be curious. Lots of beauty in this world and even with a shit ton of ugly stuff, we somehow make it work and keep advancing forward.

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Post by wruza »

cyrialize wrote: post #409

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates? Yes, it's a great technical achievement, but I just worry for the future. We don't have good social safety nets, and we aren't close to UBI. It's difficult for me to see that happen unless something drastic changes. I'm also afraid of one company just having so much power. How does anyone compete?

Does anyone know how to handle the depression/doom one feels with these updates?

I just dread, *shrug*. You don't have to be depressed or doomed, it all comes from premature predictions.

That said, we are surely at the phase similar to that one right before the internet, if not electronics. I genuinely don't understand people who write AI off as yet another Bitcoin or "just an enhanced chatbot". They'll have to catch up on an insanely complex area (even ignoring rocket science behind all that) which will do without them, and right now is the opportunity to jump the ship early.

It's only my nobody's opinion, but I can't see the way in which _that_ could fail. I find it incredibly stupid to think so and to just live your life as if nothing happens. If you're not the ruling class or a landlord, f...ing learn.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by geor9e »

Today we scroll social media feeds where every post we see is chosen by an algorithm based on all the feedback it gets from our interactions. Now imagine years down the road when Sora renders at 60 fps, every frame influenced by our reaction to the prior frame.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by dymk »

elicksaur wrote: post #591
neutralx wrote: post #378

Has anyone else noticed the leg swap in Tokyo video at 0:14. I guess we are past uncanny, but I do wonder if these small artifacts will always be present in generated content. Also begs the question, if more and more children are introduced to media from young age and they are fed more and more with generated content, will they be able to feel "uncanniness" or become completely blunt to it. There's definitely interes…

Tangent to feeling numb to it - will it hinder children developing the understanding of physics, object permanence, etc. that our brains have?

Kids aren't supposed to have screen time until they're at least a few years old anyways

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by mark_l_watson »

telesilla wrote: post #525

Watching these made me think, I'm going to want to go to the theatre a lot more in the future and see fellow humans in plays, lectures and concerts. Such achievements in technology must lead to cultural change. Look at how popular vinyl has become, why not theatre again.

I agree, seeing real human actors on stage will always be popular for some consumers. Same for local live musicians.

That said, I helped a friend who makes low budget, edgy and cool films last week. I showed him what I knew about driving Pika.art and he picked it up quickly. He is very excited about the possibility of being able to write more stories and turn them into films.

I think there is plenty of demand for all kinds of entertainment. It is sad that so many creative people in Hollywood and other content creation centers will lose jobs. I think the very best people will be employed, but often partnered with AIs. Off topic, but I have been a paid AI practitioner since 1982, and the breakthroughs of deep learning, transformers, and LLMs are stunning.

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Post by whyenot »

The world is changing before our eyes. It's exciting, sure, but I am also deeply afraid. AI may take humans to the next level, but it may also end us.

...and our future lies in the hand of venture capitalists, many of whom have no moral compass, just an insatiable hunger to make ever larger sum of money.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by samsullivan »

geor9e wrote: post #646
crazygringo wrote: post #190

This is insane. But I'm impressed most of all by the quality of motion . I've quite simply never seen convincing computer-generated motion before . Just look at the way the wooly mammoths connect with the ground, and their lumbering mass feels real. Motion-capture works fine because that's real motion, but every time people try to animate humans and animals, even in big-budget CGI movies, it's always ultimately obvio…

It's possible that through sheer volume of training, the neural network essentially has a 3D engine going on, or at least picked up enough of the rules of light and shape and physics to look the same as unreal or unity

It would have to in order to produce the outputs, our brains have crazy physics engines though, F1 drivers can simulate an entire race in their heads.

Re: Sora: Creating video from text

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Post by ramathornn »

Wow, some of those shots are so close to being unnoticeable. That one of the eye close up is insane.

It’s interesting reading all the comments, I think both sides to the “we should be scared” are right in some sense.

These models currently give some sort of super power to experts in a lot of digital fields. I’m able to automate the mundane parts of coding and push out fun projects a lot easier today. Does it replace my work, no. Will it keep getting better, of course!

People who are willing to build will have a greater ability to output great things. On the flip side, larger companies will also have the ability to automate some parts of their business - leading to job loss.

At some point, my view is that this must keep advancing to some sort of AGI. Maybe it’s us connecting our brains to LLMs through a tool like Neuralink. Maybe it’s a random occurrence when you keep creating things like Sora. Who knows. It seems inevitable though doesn’t it?

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