Things AI can do

[Homer Potvin]

Indeed. I am curious about what happens after it pops. AI isn't going anywhere of course, but I am interested to see whether the insane amount of investment will actually lead anywhere.

Check out the .com crash of 2000. This is pretty good article:

How The AI Bubble Could Burst. Lessons From The Dot-Com Stock Market Crash.

AI bubble fears have grown along with comparisons to the dot-com market crash. Can you protect yourself by studying the past? What to know.

www.investors.com

End of the day the scope of the technology won't be affected much; just the dingdongs who over invested in it. The internet didn't go anywhere when the dot-coms shat the bed.

 

[Rzero]

I don't see the bubble bursting in a dramatic and catastrophic way like the dot-com bubble. This time, most of the players are well-established powerhouses: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. For the most part, it's being incorporated into well-protected, ubiquitous existing products backed by massive infrastructures. I could be wrong. I'm no futurist, but it will be interesting to watch either way.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I don't see the bubble bursting in a dramatic and catastrophic way like the dot-com bubble. This time, most of the players are well-established powerhouses: Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc. For the most part, it's being incorporated into well-protected, ubiquitous existing products backed by massive infrastructures. I could be wrong. I'm no futurist, but it will be interesting to watch either way.

And given interest rates, money ain't "cheap" now like it was in the late 90s. Never mind the other ten zillion things that are different today than 25 years ago. How globalized was the dot-com bubble then compared to the AI bubble now? China, for example, was nowhere near the financial force then that it is now. I honestly have no clue if that would even matter.

 

[Stuart Dren]

Nvidia's can't hold up these companies forever. The companies will fall, then Nvidia's valuation will plummet back to a reasonable level.

Before that happens, I think Open AI will go public on the back of a PR stunt, explode in value, then crash like Nortel when the realities of competition and actual market cash finally take hold. Their accounting might not be the most stellar either.

The established companies can weather it. Google's not going anywhere, but it will dip.

 

[Louanne Learning]

Holy crap was that good.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the "clearing"

Which can be holy...

 

[Homer Potvin]

I mistakenly pasted a few pages from my WIP into a Google search, not realizing it was still queued in the clipboard after I had been resequencing chapters in Word. This is what it spit back at me:

 

[Naomasa298]

Maybe this thread could be reverted to its original title... or something closer to it, anyway.

 

[THUNDAIR]

I just ran across this AI YouTuber. I can't believe how good it is, maybe too perfect . Makes one wonder if AI replaces all the actors, where will we go for our political views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2avF1vakbBg
Ignore the content. It is probably fake as she is.

 

[Homer Potvin]

Maybe this thread could be reverted to its original title... or something closer to it, anyway.

I thought I did that already yesterday. Must have forgotten to hit save. Fixed.

 

[Naomasa298]

Those ASMR AI voiced videos annoy me. I want to watch a space documentary, not something that is going to put me to sleep by repeating everything five times.

 

[Naomasa298]

I thought I did that already yesterday. Must have forgotten to hit save. Fixed.

Thank you, @Homer Potvin.

 

[Homer Potvin]

I just ran across this AI YouTuber. I can't believe how good it is, maybe too perfect . Makes one wonder if AI replaces all the actors, where will we go for our political views.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2avF1vakbBg
Ignore the content. It is probably fake as she is.

She's fake? Damn. I mean, if you're on the lookout for it, you can kind of tell by watching her eyes. They do this dart up to our right that looks the same each time. And her hair fly-aways don't appear to be moving. But if you hadn't told me anything, I'm not sure I would have noticed. Maybe after watching it for the full 20 I'd be skeptical, but I'd rather have a root canal through my anus than dine on anything political.

 

[Heartlet Happer]

I can't believe how good it is, maybe too perfect .

While many of us still remember world without too much of automation. The fear of robots uprisal was common humorous sentiment. Nobody predicted the disgust and distrust against AI that we have now. The myriads of fantasy virtual worlds existing in art, movies and books now are turning into yesteryear milk. Will any of cyberpunk, sci-fi with AI characters remain readable?

 

[Homer Potvin]

Nobody predicted

I used to play a game where I'd watch older movies and see how many of them would have been over in 5 minutes if they had modern technology, namely smartphones, the Internet, and GPS.

Now, look at older movies set in a far flung technical future and see how many of them would have been over in 5 minutes. Somehow, Star Trek with the tricorder was the only one I can think of that had anything remotely related to a smartphone. It doesn't seem like a big technological leap, imagination wise for the writers of yesteryear: a little thing that sits in your pocket that can do almost anything you ask.

 

[Rath Darkblade]

older movies set in a far flung technical future

Ed Wood, anyone? And what's an Ed Wood movie without Vampira? Or Bela Lugosi? Or the strings moving the spaceships?

I shudder to think of someone using AI to try and recreate an Ed Wood film, like Night of the Ghouls, Bride of the Monster, Glen or Glenda, or Plan 9 From Outer Space. Sheesh. Despite his lack of budget or technical skill, Ed Wood at least had passion and a unique vision (not to mention unintentional humour).

But AI remakes of those films? *shudder* Bring on the ants! I, for one, welcome our new insectoid overlords...