Wonder how the folks at Runway and Pika are thinking about this.
To me, it's becoming increasingly obvious that startups whose defensibility hinges on "hoping OpenAI doesn't do this" are probably not very enduring ones.
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#932This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
This is a similar problem manuscript duplicating workers in the Ottoman realm. The printing machines would take their job, but they resisted and lobbied against it in the courts of the sultan. They succeeded in delaying the adoption of printing for some time for the detriment of the people. Unfortunately, this has been the history of man and technology destroying something for the better or worse.
Some twisted the story as if the underlying issue was the religion but economic concerns were the real reason.
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#933This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
> Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how to manage the situation.
May I introduce you to the entire history of humanity between 7 millennia before the invention of writing to approximately 50 years after the invention of communism? :P
More seriously: yes, we have no clue how to manage the situation. The best guess right now is UBI, which looks cool, but then at a first glance so does communism and laissez-faire capitalism.
Time for, ironically because humans are surprisingly bad at this, a creative idea for how to manage all this.
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#934What makes OpenAI so far ahead of all of these other research firms (or even startups like Pika, Runway, etc.)? I feel like I see so many examples of fields where progress is being made all across and OpenAI suddenly swoops in with an insane breakthrough lightyears ahead of everyone else.
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#935This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
I used to have the same view. Watching "Everything is a Remix" [1] helped me broaden my perspective.
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#936Does 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?
Times change. People adapt. Happened before, will happen again. Some adapt willingly, some hesitatingly.
Current AI wave is a corporate funded experiment desperate to find something compelling beyond controlled demos to economically recoup the deepening hole in their balance sheet. The novelty has begun to wear off, the innovation has started to stagnate and the money running out. The only money making innovation left to be seen is in creating more spam. Thats where I see this wave headed.
OpenAI has proven it's a shit company with rotten fundamentals playing with a shiny new toy. They will crash and burn spectacularly. As many before have done in various fields.
My reaction after using any AI tool from the last couple years to do anything meaningful ends with just a big facepalm.
Its a grift[1]
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#937This is both amazing and saddening to me. All our cultural legacy is being fed into a monstrous machine that gives no attribution to the original content with which it was fed, and so the creative industry seems to be in great danger. Creativity being automated while humans are forced to perform menial tasks for minimum wage doesn't seem like a great future and the geriatric political class has absolutely no clue how…
Have you ever danced or even just enjoyed listening to Daft Punk?
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#938I can’t wait for the day I can strap on my Apple® Vision Pro® 9 with OpenAI® integration and spend all my time interfacing ( wink ) with my virtual girlfriend. Sure my unlit 3 by 3 meter LifePod® is a little cramped and my arm itches from the Soylent® IV drip, but I’ll save so much time by not having to go outside and interact with legacy humans!
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#939I can’t wait for the day I can strap on my Apple® Vision Pro® 9 with OpenAI® integration and spend all my time interfacing ( wink ) with my virtual girlfriend. Sure my unlit 3 by 3 meter LifePod® is a little cramped and my arm itches from the Soylent® IV drip, but I’ll save so much time by not having to go outside and interact with legacy humans!
That sounds like a nightmare! You have to buy so many products, you have to keep them charged and you re still missing on so much. You should instead get the Neuralink plug-in pod with builtin feeding tube and catheter
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#940How does one cope with this? - Disruptions like this happen to every industry every now and then. Just not on the level of "Communicating with people with words, and pictures". Anduril and SpaceX disrupted defense contractors and United Launch Alliance; Someone working for a defense contractor/ULA here affected by that might attest to the feeling? - There will be plenty of opportunity to innovate. Industries are bein…
I would be willing to bet $10,000 that the average person's life will not be changed in any significant way by this technology in the next 10 years. Will there be some VFX disruption in Hollywood and games? Sure, maybe some. It's not a cure for cancer. It's not AGI. It's not earth shattering. It is fun and interesting though.
"by this technology" does a lot of heavy lifting. Look at the pace of AI development and extrapolate 10 years.